From 1937 the parish worker Elisabeth Braun regularly attended meetings of the Clerical Theological Society, an opposition group inside the Württemberg Protestant church. She was one of the few women in the society.
In Gerstetten, a small town in the Swabian Jura, Braun and the pastor’s wife Hannah Holzapfel gave temporary shelter in the pastor’s house to a Jewish woman from Berlin, Herta Pineas, in 1944. Her husband Dr. Hermann Pineas stayed with the Gölz family in Wankheim. Elisabeth Braun made an unsuccessful attempt to obtain forged papers for Herta and Hermann Pineas. However, she was able to get food ration cards for them, and they went on to find refuge in Memmingen. In a letter to Elisabeth Braun, Herta Pineas hinted that she and her husband wanted to commit suicide out of fear of being caught. A reply letter would have been too dangerous, so Braun immediately took a train to Memmingen. She managed to dissuade the desperate couple from their plan. Herta and Hermann Pineas survived.
In 2012 Elisabeth Braun was posthumously honored by the Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.