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Porgesová Hedvika
Source: Národní archiv Praha, Policejní ředitelství v Praze – všeobecná spisovna, 1931-1940, sign. P 2908/31
* 26. 6. 1879
AAu 781 – 27. 7. 1942, Terezín (Theresienstadt)
AAz 688 – 4. 8. 1942, Maly Trostinets
Hedvika Porgesová, née Klemprerová, came from Prague. Her parents were Alexander and Karolina, née Schulhofová. In 1901 Hedvika Klemprerová married Eduard Porges, a clerk and representative of the Klemprer company, with whom she lived until his death in early 1927. In 1902 the couple had a daughter, Gretuše (* 1902).
After her father’s death, Hedvika Porgesová inherited three-quarters of a building in Prague’s Letná district. The remaining quarter was owned by Oskar Klemprer. Her share of the property was worth an estimated 112 000 crowns, and it brought her a regular monthly rental income of 7 000 crowns.
In early 1938 Hedvika Porgesová’s brother died. He had lived in Austria, and in order to attend his funeral Hedvika Porgesová applied to the Passport Department of the Prague Police Directorate for a passport to be issued urgently.
In the summer of 1940 Hedvika Porgesová, as the co-owner of the building in Letná, was informed by a police officer that on 30 August 1940 at 10:25 p.m., two windows of her apartment facing onto the street were illuminated, so the light clearly fell upon the street. It is not known whether this breach of the blackout regulations resulted in the imposition of any penalty on Porgesová.
In June 1942 Hedvika Porgesová was deported to Terezín, and a week later she was placed on a transport to Maly Trostinets (now in Belarus), where she was killed.
The only surviving item belonging to Hedvika Porgesová is a Japanese wood engraving that was selected by the National Cultural Commission (NKK) for its own use from the National Property Administration (NSMP) depot in Dlouhá St. and taken to the Sychrov chateau.
Source: Národní archiv Praha, Policejní ředitelství v Praze – všeobecná spisovna, 1931-1940, sign. P 2908/31