Matriarch: Therese Franckel née Porges (b. ca. 1808-1809, d. Baden bei Wien, Thursday 18 July 1901, in her 93rd year of life, "after long, severe suffering").

Funeral Sunday 21 July 1901 at 10:30 a.m. at the Vienna Central Cemetery, Israelite Section. (Day-of-week check: 18 July 1901 = Thursday ✓; 21 July 1901 = Sunday ✓.)

Retrospective integration — daughter of Jonas Simon Porges

Therese Franckel née Porges is already documented on the Jonas Simon Porges page as one of the children of Jonas Simon Porges (1770-1838) + Eva Fürth. The 1901 faire-part (only located now via the Wien obituary corpus) provides the primary documentary source for her death — and adds three previously-undocumented generations of descendants to the existing family tree.

Therese's 93-year lifespan is among the longest documented in the entire Porges corpus, bridging the late Napoleonic Wars (Joseph II's 1787 patent of Jewish surnames was issued just 22 years before her birth) through Vormärz, Bohemian and Habsburg Jewish emancipation, late-imperial expansion, and well into the fin-de-siècle Vienna era.

Family — Vienna and Budapest descendants

Datelines: Wien und Budapest, 19 July 1901 — confirming a binational family network between Vienna and the Hungarian capital.

Sons (alive 1901):

• Dr. Otto Franckel

• Alexander Franckel

• Oskar Franckel

Daughters-in-law: Alice Franckel, Gabriele Franckel.

Son-in-law: Simon Ghittis — likely married a Franckel daughter (unnamed in this notice).

Grandchildren (alive 1901):

• Heinrich and Cécile Hendlé (children of an unnamed Franckel daughter ⚭ Mr. Hendlé)
• Julius Ghittis, Mimi Ghittis (children of Simon Ghittis)
• Edgar Franckel, Lisa Franckel (children of one of the three sons)

Geographic dispersal

The Vienna-Budapest dateline reflects late-imperial dual-monarchy mobility. Vienna-Budapest familial bonds were typical of the upper-bourgeois Habsburg Jewish elite, particularly the bilingual merchant-professional class.

The death-place Baden bei Wien is the famous Habsburg spa town ~25 km south of Vienna, a typical summer-residence death location for upper-bourgeois Vienna families.

Holocaust trajectory

The 1901 grandchildren (b. ca. 1875-1895) would have been ca. 43-63 in 1938 — peak Anschluss-era deportation risk. The Vienna and Budapest Franckel descendants form a substantial Holocaust search target:

• Franckel Vienna transports — Theresienstadt, Łódź, Minsk 1941-1944
• Hendlé, Ghittis family lines — Vienna and Budapest Holocaust databases
• Budapest Jewish community — Hungarian Holocaust 1944-1945 (rapid deportations to Auschwitz May-July 1944 affecting all Budapest Jews not in hiding)

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