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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).
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