Betty Porges née Flekeles
Sub-clan Z  

 

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Sub-clan Z — anchored by Betty Porges née Flekeles (d. Friday 21 August 1891 at 11 p.m., after long severe suffering).

Funeral on Sunday 23 August 1891 at 4:30 p.m. from the Israelite Funeral Hall to the new Israelite Cemetery at Strašnice. (Day-of-week check: 21 August 1891 = Friday ✓; 23 August 1891 = Sunday ✓.)

Earliest documented Strašnice cemetery burial in the corpus

The faire-part contains an unusually explicit cemetery designation: "vom israelitischen Bädhofe aus nach dem neuen israelitischen Friedhof" ("from the Israelite Funeral Hall to the new Israelite Cemetery").

The New Israelite Cemetery (Strašnice / Nový židovský hřbitov) opened in 1890 to replace the saturated Wolschaner / Olšany Jewish Cemetery. By August 1891, the new cemetery had been operating for approximately 1 year — making this faire-part an early-year Strašnice burial, and the explicit "new" qualifier reflects the transitional cemetery nomenclature of the early 1890s.

This is the first documented Strašnice burial in the obituary corpus by chronology (August 1891). All other Strašnice burials decoded elsewhere in the corpus date from the late 1900s and 1910s. Betty Flekeles 1891 stands as the earliest cemetery anchor at Strašnice in the corpus.

First-person husband-grief signature

The faire-part is signed by Hermann Porges as husband in the first-person singular construction — "gibt im eigenen Namen" ("gives in his own name") and in the name of his two daughters and all relatives. This is one of a small set of first-person husband-grief signatures in the corpus, typically associated with cases of profound personal loss when the wife was the central nuclear-family figure.

Family

Husband: Hermann Porges (alive 1891). Multiple Hermann Porges figures exist in the obituary corpus; cross-corpus identification of this Hermann remains open.

Daughters (alive 1891): Malwine Porges, Ida Porges — both unmarried in 1891.

Cross-corpus implications

The Flekeles maiden surname is distinctive Bohemian-Jewish. No other documented Porges branch in the corpus shows a Flekeles in-law connection, making Sub-clan Z a previously-unrecognised Porges-Flekeles alliance. The Hermann Porges + Flekeles Bohemian-Jewish bourgeois branch may represent a geographic or social cluster distinct from the well-documented Karolinenthal, Vienna industrial, and Příbram Porges branches.

Holocaust trajectory

Daughters Malwine and Ida (b. ca. 1870-1885) would have been ca. 53-68 in 1938 — within the Theresienstadt deportation cohort. Cross-checking holocaust.cz for Malwine / Ida Porges (or their married names) is the priority research direction.

 

Source: obituaries published in Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1878–1938) and Neue Freie Presse (Vienna, 1864–1939).