Directly following her release she married Franz Greilberger, her first husband who, like her, was a member of a resistance group. Their son Heinz was born in 1941. In 1943, Greilberger was killed on the Russian front. As the Second World War continued she now established contacts with the Yugoslav Partisans across the pre-1941 border to the south, and with resistance groups in Judenburg. Sources recall that she repeatedly risked her life in the fight against fascism. During 1944 many resistance activists in Judenburg were arrested. One fellow combatant to whom she was close was executed. In order to avoid a similar fate, shortly before the war ended she went into hiding with Slovene relatives.