Berta Porges née Zweybrück
Sub-clan A  

 

What is a Sub-clan?

 

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).