EUGENIE RABENECK, BORN 1862
A TRAVEL DIARY: ESCAPING THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
This memoir tells how Eugenie (Jenny) Loos, née Rabeneck, travelled with five of her seven children from Moscow to Dresden in 1915. Jenny was the sister of Ludwig and Edouard Rabeneck. She left at a time when the Rabeneck factory’s chemical plant was producing poison gas for the Russian war effort. She was repeating an earlier odyssey by her mother Betty Rabeneck in 1873, following the tragic death of her husband Arthur Rabeneck in 1864, at the age of 28. Betty had taken her five children, including Jenny, to Dresden in 1873. Their story is told in Edouard Rabeneck’s life story. This travel diary was originally written up by Jenny’s daughter, Emma Loos, in 1916. Then, in 2005 her sister, also Jenny, passed the manuscript to her nephew, Wolfgang Loos, who in turn transcribed and distributed it, including to the contributor of this life story, Andrew Rabeneck.
Contributed in 2022 by Andrew Rabeneck, Eugenie Rabeneck’s great great nephew.