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Sub-clan A — anchored by Berta Porges née Zweybrück
(d. 16 July, year uncertain — most plausibly 1885 or 1891 based on Fraktur
typography and Wolschan/early-Strašnice cemetery transition profile).
Funeral on a Sunday 19 July at 9 a.m. from the Israelite Funeral Hall
(Bädhofe). The brief widower-only signature is exceptional in the corpus —
a discretion-style faire-part typical of profound personal loss.
Brief widower's faire-part — exceptional discretion
The faire-part is uniquely minimalist: signed only by Adolf Porges
as widower, in the first-person singular construction
("In meinem und im Namen der Familie" — "in my own name and in the name of
the family"). This is one of only a handful of first-person husband-grief
faire-parts in the entire corpus, signaling an unusually personal and
profound bereavement signature.
Calendrical triangulation — establishing the year
The faire-part is undated by year. Calendar candidates for "Thursday/Friday
16 July + Sunday 19 July of the same month":
- 1885 (16 July = Thursday, 19 July = Sunday) ✓
- 1891 (16 July = Thursday, 19 July = Sunday) ✓
- 1896 (16 July = Thursday, 19 July = Sunday) ✓
- 1908 (16 July = Thursday, 19 July = Sunday) ✓
The faire-part's typographic profile (Fraktur with archaic "ß" in "Bädhofe"
rather than "Friedhof", and the "Bädhofe" convention itself) suggests
late-imperial period (1885-1900). The "isr. Bädhofe" designation matches
pre-Strašnice cemetery faire-parts — placing this Berta announcement most
plausibly before the new Strašnice cemetery opened in 1890, OR in the
early Strašnice transition period.
Best estimate: 1885 or 1891 — most likely a Bohemian-Vienna Porges
Wolschaner-cemetery burial of the late 1880s or early 1890s.
Family
The minimalist faire-part does not list children, parents, or siblings.
Husband Adolf Porges signs alone "in the name of the family" — leaving the
specific family configuration undocumented in this notice.
Cross-corpus implications: the Adolf Porges signature is distinctive
but multiple Adolf Porges figures exist in the obituary corpus. Identifying
this Adolf with one of the documented Adolf Porges figures requires further
research — calendar-based death-year determination would be the priority
research direction (newspaper masthead inspection of the Prager Tagblatt
issue containing this notice).
Holocaust trajectory
Without named children or siblings, no direct Holocaust-search trail can
be established from this faire-part alone. Cross-corpus identification of
husband Adolf Porges would open the relevant descendant search line.
Source: obituaries published in Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1878–1938) and Neue Freie Presse (Vienna, 1864–1939).
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