The teacher Elisabeth Goldschmidt lived in Breslau (now Wrocław). Despite being baptized a Protestant, she was dismissed from teaching in June 1933 due to her Jewish origins. In 1942 she was living in Berlin, where deportations were becoming increasingly frequent. She went into hiding in December of that year. In January 1943 she was staying with Maria Gerhard, a Confessional Church member. Through an acquaintance, Goldschmidt obtained a forged identity card in the name of Spanner and used it to travel to Heidelberg in February 1943. She hid there and in Baden-Baden until June 1943. Fearing discovery, she returned to Berlin. She came into contact there with Luise Meier, one of several people who helped her to escape to Switzerland.
Traveling with Eugenia and Bernhard Einzig, a couple also living underground, and Luise Meier, Elisabeth Goldschmidt took a train to Singen on July 3, 1943. Shortly before their arrival, Bernhard Einzig was arrested on board during ID checks. The two women escaped across the border on July 4, 1943, thanks to Luise Meier and Josef Höfler.
Elisabeth Goldschmidt remained in Switzerland after the war.
