Provisional sub-clan designation: Karolinenthal Porges – Schalek alliance (late 19th to mid-20th century)

This branch is reconstructed from three primary obituary documents: Resie Porges née Schalek (Prag-Karolinenthal, †4 Jan 1915), Therese Freund née Porges (Prag, †12 Jan 1917), and Sofie Porges née Schalek (Prag, †30 Jan 1930). Together they document a Porges sibship (Adolf, Jakob, Therese) that contracted a double-sister alliance with the Schalek family (Resie Schalek and Sofie Schalek both marrying into the Porges family). The branch was based in Karolinenthal (Karlín, Prague), the industrial-textile district north of the Old Town.

Porges parents (b. ca. 1810–1820, identities to be confirmed): three children below.

Therese (also "Resie") Porges (b. ca. 1839/40, d. Prague 12/01/1917, in her 78th year) – described in her obituary as having lived « a pious and modest conduct of life ». Married Mr. Freund (predeceased before 1917). Children: Eveline Jedlinský née Porges (m. Emanuel Jedlinský) and Josef Freund of Vienna (m. Auguste). Grandchildren: Robert Jedlinský (« currently at the front » in January 1917 – Austro-Hungarian army), Else, Marta and Walter Freund (Vienna). Buried 14 Jan 1917 from the Ceremonial Hall of the Strašnice Israelite Cemetery. Carriages for mourners departed at 13:30 from Palais Corona, Wenzelsplatz.

Adolf Porges (alive 1915, alive 1917) – married Resie (Therese) Schalek (b. ca. 1845/46, d. Prag-Karolinenthal 04/01/1915, in her 70th year, after long severe suffering). Resie was a sister of Sofie Schalek (see below). Adolf and Resie lived in Karolinenthal (Karlín).

Eva Ramm née Porges – married David Ramm.

Josef Porges « of the firm Brüder Perutz, Prague » – partner or senior associate in the well-known Bohemian textile-printing dynasty Brüder Perutz, a connection that places this Porges branch directly in the orbit of the Perutz textile elite (the family later associated with novelist Leo Perutz and Nobel laureate Max Ferdinand Perutz).

Hedwig Schwelb née Porges – married Ernst Schwelb.

Lucie Zeckendorf née Porges – married Max Zeckendorf.

Olga Klopper née Porges – married Max Klopper.

Bertha Metzger née Porges – married Arnold Metzger.

Jakob Porges (alive 1915 and 1917) – married Marie (named in 1915 as Schwägerin alongside Jakob).

The Schalek sisters (parents to be identified): both married Porges men.

Resie (Therese) Schalek (b. ca. 1845/46, d. 04/01/1915 Prag-Karolinenthal) – wife of Adolf Porges, see above.

Sofie Schalek (b. ca. 1854/55, d. Prague 30/01/1930, in her 76th year) – explicitly named « Schwester » of Resie in the 1915 obituary, confirming the sibling relationship. Married a Mr. Porges (predeceased before 1930, identity not stated in either notice). Buried at Strašnice 02/02/1930.
Children: Oskar Porges; Rosa Koretz née Porges (married Max Koretz) – mother of Franzi Koretz, who spoke « im Namen sämtlicher Enkel » in 1930; Marie Seiden née Porges (married Emil Seiden); Marta Grab née Porges (married Emil Grab); Karl Porges (married Betty).

Notes on the reconstruction

The Schalek-Schalek-Porges-Porges double alliance follows a classic late-imperial Bohemian-Jewish endogamy pattern in which two sisters of one family contract marriages with members of a single other family, consolidating capital and social networks across two generations. Combined, the Resie and Sofie Schalek branches produced at least 11 first cousins sharing Schalek maternal grandparents and (likely) Porges paternal grandparents.

The 1917 Therese Freund notice — which lists only Adolf and Jakob as surviving brothers — argues against the hypothesis that Sofie Schalek's predeceased husband was a third brother of Adolf. Most likely Sofie's husband belonged to a parallel Porges branch, although the question remains open until a Porges obituary naming Sofie née Schalek as wife is located.

The phrase « Josef Porges of the firm Brüder Perutz, Prague » in the 1915 obituary is the single most consequential business-historical detail of this entry: it places the Adolf-Resie branch in the highest tier of Prague Jewish industrial bourgeoisie, partner to (or directly tied to) the Perutz textile-printing dynasty active until WWII.

Holocaust trajectory (provisional)

Many named individuals across the three notices fall in the prime adult range during the 1938–1945 deportations: Eva Ramm, Hedwig Schwelb, Lucie Zeckendorf, Olga Klopper, Bertha Metzger, Josef Porges of Brüder Perutz, and the Vienna branch (Josef Freund, Auguste, Else, Marta, Walter Freund — subject to Anschluss persecution from March 1938). Several first-name matches with the Vienna deportation lists (Friedrich, Marie, Rosa, Hugo, Karl, Hermann) are recorded but require birth-date verification.

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