Additionally, Vansteenberghe gave pre-natal advice and medical consultations for infants in the dispensary located in the Palais du Travail in Lyon.

She was joined by him in the role when he left the army after being wounded, before their communist background led to their dismissal in July 1941 under a new Vichy regime law.

[1] That July, they became part of the French resistance under the influence of Jean-Pierre Lévy and worked together to produce Le Franc-Tireur, the underground newspaper of the movement with the same name.

They exchanged secret messages with London and received materials sent from England by parachute; her code-name was "Geneviève Prunier" and her husband's was "Michel".

They were visited in their home by leading Resistance leaders including Henry Frenay, Yvon Morandat, Antoine Avinin and Jean Moulin, the latter sent by Charles de Gaulle in London.

As well as treating wounded resistance fighters, they falsified medical evidence to help young men avoid conscription as compulsory labour in Germany.

Following World War 2 and after being protected by working for the US Counterintelligence Corps (which helped to organise his move to Bolivia through Catholic-Church-supported ratlines), Bolivian military authorities and German Foreign Intelligence finally had Barbie arrested and extradited to France from the now-democratic Bolivia in 1983 and indicted in 1984 for his crimes as the Gestapo chief in Lyon between 1942 and 1944.

In her testimony she stated that she had climbed onto a platform and, from inside her cell, witnessed Barbie directing 4 officers in the deportation of 650 other prisoners to concentration camps.