Henriette Porges née Kohn
Sub-clan AN (Liboznice)  

 

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Sub-clan AN — matriarchal anchor: Henriette Porges née Kohn, merchant's widow from Liboznice (b. 1873, d. Saturday 2 April 1932 in her 59th year of life).

Residence: Prague XII (Královské Vinohrady), Čerchovská 10. Funeral Tuesday 5 April 1932 at 2 p.m. at the Israelite Cemetery at Strašnice. (Day-of-week check: 2 April 1932 = Saturday ✓; 5 April 1932 = Tuesday ✓.)

Liboznice — Bohemian rural village context

Liboznice was a small Czech-speaking Bohemian village (precise location ambiguous; possibly Libouchec near Ústí nad Labem, Sudeten North Bohemia, or another Liboznice / Libouchec elsewhere). Henriette and her late merchant husband had run a Kaufmann business there before her widowhood and relocation to Prague-Vinohrady.

Kohn-Porges bidirectional alliance

Henriette Porges née Kohn is the fourth documented Kohn-related figure marrying into a Porges family in the obituary corpus. The Kohn-Porges alliance is now confirmed in both directions:

  • Porges women marrying Kohn men: Sub-clan M (Amalie Kohn née Porges †1937), Sub-clan Y3 (Bertha Kohn née Porges)
  • Kohn women marrying Porges men: Sub-clan AN (this obituary)

This bidirectional pattern is comparable to the Reitlinger-Porges triple sister-marriage (Sub-clan B + Auspitz), the Pereles-Porges multi-generation cluster (Sub-clans D + N), and the Bondy-Porges multi-marriage.

Family — Czech-language Goldschmid descendants

Husband: a Mr. Porges, merchant of Liboznice, predeceased before 1932.

Children (alive 1932):

Anči Goldschmid + husband Arnošt Goldschmid — Czech-language given names

Lidka Porges — Czech diminutive of Ludmilla / Lydia

The Czech-language given names Anči (= Annie / Annetka) and Lidka (= Ludmilla diminutive) are striking — they reflect a Czech-leaning assimilation within the Bohemian-Jewish bourgeoisie, distinct from the more typically German-leaning Vienna-Prague Porges branches.

Siblings (Kohn family of origin): Luise Beck, Angela Lawetzky, Heinrich K. Kohn (the K. middle initial may stand for Kaufmann or a personal middle name — possibly to distinguish from other Heinrich Kohns).

Grandchild: Jiří Goldschmid (Czech form of Georg) — son of Anči + Arnošt.

Holocaust trajectory — top-priority search

Henriette died in 1932, before the Munich Agreement and Nazi occupation. Her named descendants — all in 1932 active in Czech-Jewish society — were at extreme Holocaust risk after March 1939:

  • Anči and Arnošt Goldschmid, Prague — high deportation priority
  • Lidka Porges, Prague — high deportation priority
  • Jiří Goldschmid, b. ca. 1925-1930, ~12-17 in 1942 — would have been deported as part of the Theresienstadt children's transports
  • Luise Beck, Angela Lawetzky, Heinrich K. Kohn — sibling search targets

This is one of the most clearly identifiable Holocaust-priority research targets in the corpus, with full first-name + maiden / married-surname combinations for Czech-resident descendants.

 

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