It was probably during the second part of the 1920s that Barakovich married the Viennese author-screenwriter . They relocated together in 1930 to Berlin in connection with Paul Frank's work. Barakovich opened "Atelier de Moda", a small studio in the Friedrichstraße in the heart of city, from where she worked as a fashion photographer. Business was good until that morning during the first part of 1933 when they arrived to find a large stone in the middle of the floor and the shop window shattered. As it happened she would have almost precisely the same experience again, five years later, back in Vienna. After the National Socialists took power at the start of 1933 there was no longer any work for them in Germany, apparently for reasons of race, and they returned home to Vienna. However, early in 1938 Austria was incorporated into Nazi Germany. Barakovich and her husband escaped to France. The French government was more generous than most about welcoming refugees from the racial policy of Nazi Germany, but unemployment was a major political and social problem for the Blum government. Work permits were hard to obtain, and the couple had no income apart from the small amount received in royalties from film-scripts and novels. They went to Paris in order to try and obtain the visa needed to emigrate from France to the United States, but they were unsuccessful.