Eugenia Einzig and her husband Bernhard were Jewish, and had to perform forced labor in the armaments industry in Berlin. When they were threatened with deportation at the end of February 1943, they went underground. They stayed for around four months with Josef Jakubowski, a former employee of Bernhard Einzig’s, and his wife Hedwig.
Through a friend, Eugenia Einzig met a Berlin widow, Luise Meier, who helped people at risk to escape to Switzerland from the border region in Baden, along with Josef Höfler. With Meier and another Jew in hiding, Elisabeth Goldschmidt, the Einzigs took a train to Lake Constance on July 2, 1943; for safety reasons, they traveled in separate compartments. Shortly before their arrival in Singen, Bernhard Einzig was arrested when his identity papers were checked on the train. Luise Meier could no longer help him, but she accompanied Eugenia Einzig and Elisabeth Goldschmidt to the border region. That evening, Josef Höfler took the two Jewish women to a place where they crossed to Swiss territory near Ramsen on July 4, 1943.
Bernhard Einzig was deported shortly later to Theresienstadt, where he perished on December 8, 1943. His widow emigrated to join her children in England in 1947.