Katharina Fried née Porges
Sub-clan BC  

 

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Sub-clan BC — matriarchal anchor: Katharina Fried née Porges (b. ca. 1811-1812, d. Sedletz-Pröitz Wednesday 12 August 1896 at 11 p.m., in her 85th year of life, of senility — i.e., natural decline of old age).

Funeral on Friday 14 August 1896 at 2 p.m. from the house of mourning at Sedletz. (Day-of-week check: 12 Aug 1896 = Wednesday ✓; 13 Aug = Thursday ✓; 14 Aug = Friday ✓.)

Katharina is among the earliest-born documented Porges women in the corpus, born ca. 1811-12 — bridging the late Napoleonic Wars and the modern Habsburg era. Her 84-year lifespan saw the Vormärz period (1815-1848), Bohemian Jewish emancipation (1849), full Habsburg Jewish emancipation (1867), and most of the late-imperial era.

Sedletz-Pröitz — small-town Bohemian rural location

"Sedletz-Pröitz" (Czech: Sedlec-Prčice) is most plausibly a Central Bohemian small-town location in the Sedlčany region (Středočeský kraj), ca. 70 km southeast of Prague. This is the first documented Sedletz-Pröitz location in the obituary corpus, opening the rural-Bohemian small-town Jewish-bourgeois class to the Porges affinity network.

Four-generation family

Katharina is explicitly designated as both grandmother and great-grandmother (Urgroßmutter) — confirming a four-generation family structure with great-grandchildren alive in 1896.

Husband: Alexander Fried (alive 1896, signs the obituary).

Children (alive 1896, all six remarkably bearing the Fried surname or married out):

Ludmilla Fried (unmarried 1896)

Marie Kay née Fried — married Ludwig Kay

Therese Fried (unmarried 1896)

Moriz Fried

Ignaz Fried

Julie Weiß née Fried — married Albert Weiß

Sons-in-law: Ludwig Kay, Albert Weiß.

Daughters-in-law: Malvine Fried née Lewy, Amalie Fried née Fried (another Porges-Fried-Fried cousin or namesake marriage).

"All grandchildren and great-grandchildren" are mentioned collectively without individual naming.

Holocaust trajectory

The 6 children (b. ca. 1840-1860) were likely deceased of natural causes by 1938. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren — particularly the Fried, Kay, and Weiß lines — would have been the prime deportation cohort.

  • Search holocaust.cz for Fried, Kay, and Weiß Bohemian-resident transports 1942-1944
  • Cross-check Sedlčany / Sedlec-Prčice regional records for surviving Fried descendants

 

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