Franziska Mohr née Porges
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Sub-clan AI — matriarchal anchor: Franziska Mohr née Porges (b. ca. 1834-1835, d. Prague Saturday 11 September 1909, in her 75th year of life, "after long, severe suffering").

Residence: Lange-Gasse 39 (today Dlouhá, Old Town Prague). Funeral Tuesday 14 September 1909 at 3:30 p.m. from the Ceremonial Hall of the new Israelite Cemetery at Strašnice. Carriages departed at 2:30 p.m. from the house. (Day-of-week check: 11 September 1909 = Saturday ✓; 14 September 1909 = Tuesday ✓.)

Four-generation family — great-grandmother designation

Franziska is explicitly designated as Urgroßmutter (great-grandmother), indicating at least one great-grandchild was alive in 1909. The family spans four generations:

Mr. Mohr (predeceased) ⚭ Franziska Porges (b. ca. 1834-35, †11 Sept 1909)
        │
        ├── Rosa (Ekstein) — Prague
        ├── Bertha (Schwartz) — New York
        ├── Leo Mohr — Sobau (Sudeten North Bohemia)
        ├── Henriette (Ekstein) — Prague
        └── Hugo Mohr — Prague
              │
              └── grandchildren (b. ca. 1880-1900)
                    │
                    └── great-grandchildren (b. ca. 1900-1909) — ≥1 alive

Family

Husband: a Mr. Mohr, predeceased before 1909.

Children (alive 1909):

Rosa Ekstein née Mohr — Prague, m. Rudolf Ekstein

Bertha Schwartz née MohrNew York, m. Henry Schwartz

Leo MohrSobau (Soběslav, South Bohemia)

Henriette Ekstein née Mohr — Prague, m. (the second Ekstein son-in-law)

Hugo Mohr — Prague

Brother: Daniel Porges (Karlsbad / Karlovy Vary) — connecting this branch to the Karlsbad spa-town Bohemian-Jewish bourgeois network.

Children-in-law: Henry Schwartz, Rudolf Ekstein, Bertha Mohr, Mathilde Mohr.

Spokesperson for the grandchildren: Elsa Kreutzer.

Geographic dispersal

Franziska's 5 children spread across Prague, Sobau (Soběslav), New York, and Karlsbad via brother Daniel. The Bertha Schwartz / New York connection documents an 1880s-1890s Bohemian-Jewish emigration to the United States, whose descendants would have been safe through the Holocaust era.

Holocaust trajectory

  • Rosa, Henriette, Hugo Mohr / Ekstein families, Prague — high Protectorate-era risk
  • Leo Mohr family, Sobau — Czech rural transport risk 1942-1944
  • Bertha Schwartz family, New York — safe through the Holocaust era
  • Daniel Porges, Karlsbad — extreme Sudeten-area risk after September 1938; Karlsbad fell to the Nazis after the Munich Agreement

 

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