Note: extracts from Ein früher Europäer by Jakob Ludwig Heller below, supplied by Peter Foges: "..Owner of one of the largest wholesale manufactured goods businesses in Prague (*I suppose that meant he bought finished goods from small cottage industries such as glass jewelry from Gablonz in the Sudetenland as well as leather goods and haberdashery from family owned fIrms in Prague, many from relatives, and sold them on to retailers all over Bohemia). Koppelmann was apparently a passionate, energetic personality, much liked and respected in Josefov. Born at the height of the Enlightenment in 1799, he had one foot, so to speak, in the old orthodoxies and folkways of traditional Judaism in the Hapsburg Empire, and the other in the increasingly emancipated world of the coming century. He probably spoke both Yiddish and German fluently -- and being a devoted Talmudic scholar, biblical Hebrew too. Koppelmann is said to have traveled widely within Bohemia (though rarely further since Jews were ordinarily prohibited from traveling within the Empire until the late 1860's). When away from home he stuck to eating and drinking only "eggs and coffee", so as not to break Kosher rules. As well as studying the Mishna and Gemora, he was also steeped in western philosophy and literature, possessing a large library of the classics. At the theater, concert hall or opera -- Koppelmann apparently "never missed a good performance when he was in Prague" -- he was in the habit of purchasing the cheapest seats, not because he was miserly, but rather out of modesty. The doors of his home on Golczische Gasse, a large airy structure by the standards of the overcrowded ghetto, combining numbers 4 and 6, and overlooking the green trees of old Jewish cemetery, were always open to indigent acquaintances. He constantly fed them, hosted them, and gave them shelter. Among those with a room there was his own aged father, Salomon. These well-known acts of kindness, plus his scrupulous annual payment of a tenth of his income to charity, turned Koppelmann Foges into one of the Jewish community's best liked and most highly esteemed figures. Apart from religion, and philosophy, education was his passion. He took enormous trouble to see that his 6 children got the finest schooling available. con'd below"

• Moritz FOGES Born: 1823 + Rosalia "Rosi" JEITELES
  • Maria FOGES

  • Klara FOGES Born: 1849 in Prague. Residence: Prague, Vienna, left for America in 1870's, setteled in New York, later moved to San Francisco + Heinrich SCHWARTZ

    Note: cont'd from pt-1 above "Apparently at a young age Klara fell in love with a reprobate called Heinrich Schwartz, work shy, alcoholic and parasitical, and much taken with the idea of lounging in bed all morning while his wife scrabbled for work. Was he even Jewish? (The whole thing must have curled the toes of her grand papa, Koppelmann, at this point spinning away in his grave). She married him against all entreaties not to, and went on loving him for years through thick and thin (mostly thin. After a chaotic time in Prague, Vienna and elsewhere, they upped stakes like so many millions of others and headed to New York, presumably via Ellis Island. After a few hard scrabble years on the lower East Side, Schwartz, per Heller, turned in desperation to a life of crime, and was promptly arrested for fraud. Still Klara stood by him, even though he framed her, suggesting to judge and jury alike that it was she, not he, who had been the master-mind. The jury seems not to have been taken in by Heinrich's lies, sending him to jail but not her. Next poor Klara flees West in shame --  to San Francisco, where no doubt she still pined for her beloved. In California Heller loses track of her, and the unfortunate Klara (nee Foges) Schwartz, drops off from the radar. con'd below" 

  • Bertha FOGES
  • Louise FOGES

  *2nd wife of Moritz: Marie STEIN Born: 1840

  • Richard FOGES Born: Jan 2, 1865 in Czech. Transport Z from Kladno to Terezin on 26/2/1942, Transport Bv from Terezin to Treblinka on 15/10/1942. List of Theresienstadt camp inmates, perished Yad Vashem
  • Anna FOGES Born: 1871
  • Conrad FOGES Born: 1875

  • Rudolf FOGES Born: Nov 19, 1882 Residence: Jablonec nad Nisou, (Gablonz) Bohemia. Transport Cm from Mlada boleslav to Terezin on 16/1/1943, Transport Cq from Terezin to Auschwitz on 20/1/1943, List of Theresienstadt camp inmates perished Yad Vashem 2nd + Oga (?) age 45, age of 1st child 16 Yad Vashem posted by relative Augusta Perlman 22/1/1957
    • Peter FOGES Born: 1929 in Jablonec nad Nisou, Bohemia Died: Theresienstadt concentration camp Yad Vashem

• Josef FOGES Born: 1828 in Prague, Bohemia. occupation: Button Manufacturer. Residence: bef. 1867 Prague, after Vienna. Died: Feb 16, 1881 in Vienna Prague cons. card + Lucie (Louise) (see FLEKELES /FLECKLES family) Born: 1834 Married: 1854 Died: Oct 28, 1889 in Vienna NFP Father: David Wolf Flekeles (1802 - ) Prague cons. card Mother: Henriette Janowitzer (1800 - 1837)

  Note: cont'd from pt-2 above: "..Josef was not a lucky man. He went into commerce at an early age, helped no doubt by Koppelmann's connections and cash injections, manufacturing leather goods and decorative glass. At first he did well, accumulating considerable capital. But, starting in 1870, after the Franco-Prussian war and German unification, the imprudent Josef began to sink every penny he had -- and all the profits from his business -- into stocks. (The raging Viennese equity markets of the early 1870's were fueled by massive French war reparations, demanded of the losing side by Germany's Bismarck, and recycled through Berlin. Vienna was awash in cheap credit, easy loans and speculative greed). When inevitably the bubble burst  -- on May 9, 1873, in a calamitous collapse every bit as bad as the 1929 Wall Street crash -- Josef lost everything. Utterly ruined, he could not support his family and had to be rescued by his brother-in-law, Joseph Jeiteles below. Back in 1867, in the year Jews throughout the Hapsburg lands received their full civil rights, allowing them to travel internally without special permission, Jeiteles had invested in a Viennese horn button factory so as to provide a secure income for his brother Michael. Josef Foges, a relative by marriage, now became a director of the Jeiteles family firm. Their factory unfortunately emitted terrible smells unavoidably caused by the chemical process involved in turning ox hoofs into buttons fit for fashionable Vienna. Demand was brisk, and the buttons sold well. Josef was saved! He even traveled to London to exhibit the factory's wares at the great industrial fair held there each year throughout the 19th Century, and was awarded prizes for his firm's  workmanship. Later on though, Josef's fortune turned once more. Situated at the very edge of the city near the West Railway Station, the family factory was at first surrounded by green fields. However as Vienna expanded, and new housing sprung up, residential neighbors began to complain about the constant and by all accounts very unpleasant odor. Soon there were law suits, and visits from the police. Eventually the business had to be sold, no doubt at a distressingly discounted price. con'd below"

  • Dr. med Theodor FOGES Born: Feb 12, 1855 in Prague. Died: Aug 29, 1920 in Vienna

  • Emilie FOGES Born: Oct 6, 1857 in Prague. Died: Aug 9, 1906 in Vienna NFP + Adolf MENDL Born: abt 1848 Died: Nov 17, 1920 in Vienna NFP Siblings: Ludwig Mendl, Anna Mendl & (?) Jerusalem
    • Martha MENDL
    • Alice MENDL
    • Bertha MENDL
  • Ernst FOGES Born: Dec 17, 1862 in Prague. Died: April 24, 1948 in London, England Avotaynu list *same Ernst with Olga (nee Samisch) Foges on Expropriated persons and expatriates 1933-1945 www.kinematographie.de? *see Foges, Ernst - (1862 Prague - 1949 London, UK) - "Napoleon and the Jews" under Stories

  • Dr. med Arthur FOGES Born: Oct 28, 1868 in Vienna. Died: Oct 7, 1920 in Vienna + Helene KUFFLER Born: Jul 1, 1873 in Vienna. Married: 1897 Died: 1950's in Bombay, India Siblings: Theodor Kuffler ( - bur Vienna), Arthur Kuffler (abt 1888 - 1940 Vienna) pre-war Austria's most prominent industrialists and business leader, chairman of Matner the cotton spinning combine, with factories all over central Europe. Later, from the Anschluss until his death in 1940, he was involved in setting up various bodies that tried - with a certain amount of success - to help Jews escape Vienna Father: Victor Kuffler (of Netherlands, 18th century Prague, later Vienna ?5/14/1834 - 4/14/1905 Vienna Döbling)? brother of Wilhelm Kuffler (abt 1850 - 1/27/1897 Vienna) NFP, Leopold Kuffler, Natalie Kuffler & Marcus Neudörfer, Rosa Kuffler & Michael Goldschmidt and brother-in-law of Bertha (nee ?) Kuffler, Sophia (nee ?) Kuffler Mother: Louise /Luiza (see Ausch family) ?(4/29/1847 Budapest - 5/25/1930 Vienna Döbling)? daughter of Rozalia (?) ?same as on Bauer page NFP?
    Note: Arthur became a distinguished endocrinologist and physician specializing in reproductive medicine, much cited in the journals of the time, attached to Rudolfina Haus Clinic and, as a dozent, to the university medical school. He was also a minor poet and all round intellectual who counted among his close friends Felix Salten (author of "Bambi"), Arthur Schnitzler, Theodor Herzl and Sigmund Freud
    • Dr. eng. Georg FOGES Born: 1898 occupation: Inventor. Died: Dec 26, 1960 in Bombay, India
    • Walter FOGES Born: 1900 occupation: Businessman in the Cotton trade. Died: 1971 in London, England

    • Wolfgang FOGES Born: Feb 27, 1910 occupation: Well known Publisher in London. Mar 6, 1986 in London, England + Katharina SCHUTTE Born: in Minden, Wesfalia, Germany. Residence: Oct 1938 London, England
      • Peter FOGES Born: private "source"

• Rosa FOGES Born: 1830 in Prague. Died: 7/12/1904 in Vienna NFP + Josef JEITELES Born: 1819 in Prague cons. card  Died: Jun 30, 1889 in Vienna NFP occupation: Gründers der firma Jacob S? Jeiteles Sohn buried with son Georg & his wife Rosa Siblings: Marie Jeitels (1820 - 1/20/1890 Prague) NFP & Heinrich E. (see Wiener family) (1815 Prague - 5/16/1903 Vienna) NFP, Hermann Jeiteles, Michael Jeiteles *Vienna cem. also has Rosa Rachel Jeiteles (1819 - bur 2/8/1887) and Rosa Jeiteles (1836 - bur 9/1/1905)

  Note: con't from pt-3 above: "..Heller has only nice things to say about his mother-in-law, Rosa -- but very few. All Heller says, really, is that she, "had been given a religious upbringing in the ghetto of Prague, but also a good classical education". (This again is one of Heller's many remarks (often coy) about the transition these people were experiencing throughout the century as they moved at warp speed from a closed inward looking essentially medieval way of life towards one where reason reigned, religion was in steep decline and Jews were forced to grapple with a wider, often hostile, world). con'd below"

  • Auguste JEITELES Born: 1851 in Prague. Died: March 11, 1911 in Vienna NFP cousins + Jakob Ludwig HELLER Born: 1842 Died: 1921 Siblings: Heinrich Heller (1834 - 12/29/1882 2more) NFP fabrikant & Pauline (see Wiener family) (1842 - 11/11/1895) NFP "ch. Sofie & Arnold Weishut, Helene & Bernhard Schlesinger, dr. Robert, Olga, Else", Julius Heller, Leopold Heller Grandson: Otto (?) Cousins: Heinrich Heller, Karl Heller Sister-in-laws: Helene (nee Fischl) Heller, Erna (nee Frank) Heller Father: Balduin Heller (abt 1809 - 1/8/1887) NFP factory owner in Teplice, Bohemia Uncles: Joachim Heller, Schmule Heller, Israel (Ignaz) Jeiteles (1811- bur 4/12/1886 Vienna) & Cäzilie Mayer (1817 - 3/16/1893) NFP "ch. Eleonore Jeiteles (1844 - 3/12/1918) NFP, Jacob Jeiteles & Wilhelmine (?), Auguste Jeiteles (1847 - bur 4/24/1928) & Isidor Kanitz ( - 7/10/1925) NFP [ch. Jenny Kanitz & Alfred Löwengard, Lisette Kanitz & dr Felix Schiff [brother of Max (see Schiff) family & Karoline "Lina" Schlesinger (1840 - bur 4/30/1908)], Natalie Kanitz & dr Josef Patzau, Johannes Kanitz (1882 - 4/19/1938) grandchildren of Eleonore (nee Hirschl) Kanitz (1814 - 8/30/1912) NFP]", bur/w Johanna Friedmann (1815 - 12/12/1899 Vienna), Samuel Friedmann (1822 - 2/19/1882) M-grandfather: Jakob Herschmann Jeiteles ( - 4/1/1842 Vienna) on glassrevue ".. firma Jeitelesové přišli do Čech z Paříže, kde se již na počátku 19. století věnovali obchodu. Odtud zamířili do Prahy a roku 1866 se usadili v Jablonci" M-grandmother: Rebekka Jeiteles Koppelmann Foges ?(1819 - 8/30/1882 Vienna)?

    Note Jakob's book, edited by Antonie Neumann: "Long Forgotten Events from Imperial Austria" on Amazon, Bookweb also mentions: ".. Everyday Occurrences in Teplitz Hugo Gold.. Uncle Birnbaum.. Cousin George.. Uncle Joseph and Aunt Rosa Jeiteles Gablonz.. Uncle Joseph Heller and Aunt Regie.. .. Lori Jeiteles.. My Cousin Johanna.. My Cousin Adolph.. My Cousin Oskar.. The Doctorate of Dr. Jonas Jeitteles ?(-6/4/1876)? at Prague University.."

    • Alice HELLER + Josef KANITZ

    • Margarete HELLER + ? Dr. Robert HELLER

    • Konrad HELLER
    • Agnes HELLER
  • Antonia (Antonie) JEITELES Born: 1853 in Prague + Adolphe SCHWENK

  • Maxmilian (Max JEITELES) Born: 1854 in Prague. Buried: 3/3/1914 in Vienna + Jenny LISMANN

  • Georg JEITELES Born: abt 1851 in Prague. Died: 11/21/1919 in Vienna + Rosa STRAKOSCH Born: 1858 Died: 10/25/1934 in Vienna NPP Siblings: Elise Strakosch ( - 8/26/1926 Liberec /Reichenberg) NFP & (?) (see Neumann family), Eveline Strakosch & (?) Wahle on Bruuner page, Olga Strakosch & (?) Gutwillig, Mizzi Strakosch (1865 - 11/17/1927) NFP & (?) Pollak, Clara Strakosch & (?) Marcus, *Georg is buried with Josef Jeiteles (1829 - 6/30/1889) and Rosa's obit also mentions Sigmund Jeiteles, Valerie and Elisabeth Jungmann

    Note: any relation to Franziska Strakosch (1830 -) & Samuel Denhof (1822-) on Prague cons. card OR Siegfried Strakosch & Rosa Schwarz (1878 - Oct 1, 1907) NFP son Georg Strakosch?

• Jacob "Jacques" FOGES Born: 1833 Died: Mar 23, 1904 NFP + Lucie "Lotti" (see POLLACZEK family) (1833 - 10/30/1889?)

  Note: con't from pt4 above: '.. Jacob was the family dullard, and a great disappointment to his high-minded intellectual father. Not known for bookish talent of any kind, he was nick named "Jacques" by his siblings -- why we do not know. Embracing a rural and peripatetic way of life early on, he lived for many years in the mountains, becoming in the process a kind of Jewish yokel. "Peasant Foges" was another name people gave him. Indeed, there's a charming photograph of him in the recently published English-language edition of Heller's book smoking a long meerschaum peasant pipe. Apprenticed as a tanner, by his despairing but loving father, he rose to manage -- though never own -- several leather-goods businesses, and spent about eight successful years in Russia. Until, that is, the local oblast happened to discover he was a Jew. Such was the furor among the deeply anti-Semitic serfs, that Jacob was persuaded then and there to flee back to Austria in fear of his life. So says Heller, at any rate. Few days before Jacques died, he broke his leg in a fall while hiking alone. He spent a night exposed on a cold mountain-side apparently repeatedly firing his hunting rifle to draw attention to his plight. (It is interesting to speculate on the degree to which this essentially delightful and sweet natured man was an outsider, ostracized by his siblings and nephews and nieces. The death notice in the WNP lists his widow and daughter -- and assorted Polatschek's -- among the mourners. No members of the FOGES family though, even though many were alive at the time)."

  • Anna FOGES + Dr. Heinrich KOMPERT
  • Paul KOMPERT
  • Auguste KOMPERT

• Salomon FOGES Born: 1835 cons. card + Pauline FEIGL Born: 1842 Died: Mar 16, 1900 in Vienna NFP Siblings: Dr law Felix Feigl ( - 7/3/1882) NFP, Gustav Feigl & Ernestine Raudnitz, Ottilie Feigl (1852 - 3/21/1926) NFP, Emilie (Emma) Feigl (1846 - 2/8/1914) & Adolf Klemperer(1844 - 10/8/1913) NFP children Alice Klemperer & Dr Alfred Pollak (chil. Georg, Annemarie), Dr Paul Klemperer & Mary (?), Erwin Klemperer, Hans Klemperer & Marianne (?) (9/10/1875 - 4/27/1942) Father: Georg Feigl (1806 - 2/11/1885) NFP bur/w Esther Bard (1846 - 11/4/1882)

• Bernhard (Bernard) FOGES Born: 1838 Died: Jan 12, 1897 NFP + Clementine (Klementine) (see BING family) Born: 1850 Died: Nov 28, 1931 Father: Anton Bing (1810 - 5/12/1893 Vienna) NFP Mother: Julie (?) (1818 - 5/2/1885 Vienna)

• Dr. law Theodor NEUSTADTEL Born: abt 1842 Died: Nov 30, 1908 in Vienna NFP + Anna POPPER *Theodor is bur. as Neustadtl
  • Dr. law Arthur (Artur) NEUSTADTEL Born: Jan 18, 1873 Residence: Liberec (Reichenberg), Bohemia. occupation: Lawyer. Transport 12/171941 N from Praha to Terezin (Theresienstadt), Bohemia concentration camp, Transport-2 Ds from Terezin to Auschwitz, Poland on 12/18/1943, Perished Yad Vashem, Yad Vashem2 + Irma LEVIT or LEWIT Residence: Vienna
    • Kurt NEUSTADTEL
    • Hans NEUSTADTEL twin occupation: Agronomist working in Colombia, South America *in 1938 they had to leave and Hans obtain visas for his sister Grete, her husband Karl Mautner and his parents, as well his niece Eva

    • Grete NEUSTADTEL twin + Karl MAUTNER Father: Leopold Mautner Mother: Elsa Stransky *Grete's cousin: Franz Davenport (born Dessauer) ( - 2001)
      • Eva Ericka MAUTNER Born: in Vienna + (?)
        • Carlos Rincón MAUTNER Residence: private "source"
        • Luis MAUTNER

  • Martha NEUSTADTEL + Dr. Paul FRÖSCHELS (1857 - 1/24/1938) Siblings: Jenny Fröschels & Martin Hinrichsen, Susanne Fröschels & dr Josef Scheiner "ch. Franz, Otto, Margit Scheiner" Father: Adolf John Fröschels (1817 - 12/25/1896) NFP Mother: Emilie Weil (1819 - 8/25/1901 Burkersdorf) NFP sister of Johanna (nee Weil) Heilbut, Adolf Weil (1819 - 5/10/1900) NFP & Rosette Magnus (1833 - bur 6/19/1910) NFP "ch. Albert Weil, Max Weil, Mathilde Weil & Wolgang Michael [ch. Helene, Wilhelm, Siegfried], Elise Weil ( - 10/28/1901 London) NFP & Sigmund Mautner [ch. Grete Mautner, Josefine Mautner]"

  • Luise NEUSTADTEL + Otto HECHT *Vienna cem. has a Otto (1842 - 8/19/1911)
    • Walter HECHT + Gertie (?)
      • Luise HECHT
      • Robert  HECHT
  • Walter NEUSTADTEL occupation: k.u. k. Lieutenant
  • Ernst NEUSTADTEL

• Rudolph FOGES Born: 1846 Died: 2/1/1923 + Marie WEIL Born: 1844 Died: 8/2/1922
• Klara FOGES Born: 1849
• Sofie (Sophie) FOGES Born: abt 1850 or 1852 Died: Nov 28, 1919 in Vienna NFP + Hermann SPRINGER

• Heinrich FOGES Born: 1853 Died: Nov 18, 1910 NFP + Franziska WOLF or LUBET Born: 1853 Died: Jul 28, 1940
  • Lucie FOGES Born: Mar 17, 1879. Residence: 9, Servitengasse 102, Vienna. Deported with Transport from Vienna to Sobibor 14/6/1942, perished in the shoah Yad Vashem
  • Paul FOGES
  • Bruno FOGES Born: Jul 6, 1885 in Vienna. Taken in Antwerp 1942 where he had sought refuge and a safe passage. Died: Aug 18, 1942 in Auschwitz Yad Vashem, Avotaynu list, Auschwitz death certificates
  • Robert FOGES