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Sub-clan AA — matriarchal anchor: Caroline Reis née Porges
(b. ca. 1819-1820, d. Prague Sunday 22 November 1896, in her 77th year of life).
Funeral on Tuesday 24 November 1896 at 2 p.m. from the Israelite Funeral Hall.
(Day-of-week check: 22 November 1896 = Sunday ✓; 24 November 1896 = Tuesday ✓.)
Caroline is one of the earliest-born documented Porges women in the
obituary corpus — a Vormärz (pre-1848) cohort member contemporary with
Anna Porges née Resek (Sub-clan W2, b. 1831), Charlotte Friedmann née Porges
(b. ca. 1821), and the Napoleonic-generation sisters Sara Marie Oesterreicher
(b. 1813) and Sarah Teweles (b. 1814) — see
Napoleonic Porges sibship.
Husband: Ignaz Reis (alive 1896, signs the obituary as widower).
Children (alive 1896):
• Gottfried Reis — Stadt Steyr (Upper Austria)
• Director Josef Reis — Brüx (Most, North Bohemia / Sudeten coal-mining region)
• Gotthard Reis — Stadt Steyr (Upper Austria)
• Rosa Fischer née Reis — married Jacob Fischer (Prague)
• JUDr. Emanuel Reis — Vienna (lawyer)
• Johanna Schwenk née Reis — married Adolf Schwenk (Vienna)
Daughters-in-law: Rosa Reis née Pollatschek, Emma Reis née Pollatschek,
Berta Reis née Rosenbaum.
Sons-in-law: Jacob Fischer (Prague), Adolf Schwenk (Vienna).
Pollatschek-Reis double sister-marriage
Two of Caroline's sons (Gottfried + Gotthard, both Steyr-resident) married
two Pollatschek sisters: Rosa and Emma née Pollatschek.
This is a documented double-sister marriage from the Pollatschek family
into the Reis family — a typical late-imperial Bohemian-Jewish endogamy
pattern reinforcing capital and social network across two generations.
Geographic dispersal
The 6 children spread across 4 distinct cities:
Stadt Steyr (Upper Austrian iron-and-steel industrial town), Brüx (North
Bohemian Sudeten coal-mining centre), Prague, and Vienna. The Prague-Brüx-Steyr-Vienna
axis documents a substantial late-imperial professional Reis-Porges family
network spanning the major industrial corridors of Cisleithania.
Holocaust trajectory
Caroline's grandchildren would have been ca. 50-80 years old in 1938-1945 —
the oldest cohort still alive at peak Holocaust risk. Cross-checking
holocaust.cz, DÖW, and Yad Vashem databases for the following name-and-place
combinations is the priority research direction:
- Reis family, Stadt Steyr — Sudeten German political pressure from 1938 onward
- Reis family, Brüx (Most) — heavy Sudeten German nationalist pressure 1938-1945
- Reis family, Vienna — Anschluss-era persecution from March 1938
- Fischer family, Prague — Protectorate persecution from March 1939
- Schwenk family, Vienna — Anschluss-era persecution
Source: obituaries published in Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1878–1938) and Neue Freie Presse (Vienna, 1864–1939).
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