At home, "Resle" Schäuble from Wurmlingen helped the family. From January 1936, the racist "Nuremberg Laws" forbade her to work for a Jewish family. It came to a painful parting. "She didn't want to leave and cried so much," Lilian Barber recalled.

Resle later proved to be a brave friend of the grandparents. She visited them secretly and provided them with basic necessities. When Lilian Barber visited Rottenburg in 2007, she met Resle's son Eugen Märkle, who told her about it.