[2] When war broke out, she was barred from practicing law, when the German Military Administration passed an anti-Jew decree on 28 October 1940 banning Jews from government and public service positions and from the legal profession.
[4] Within the group, Pevtschin helped transmitting messages to London, providing false identity papers and establishing contacts with other Resistance networks.
[5] Pevtchin was also instrumental in organizing the logistics for the publication of La Libre Belgique, one of the most notable underground newspapers published in German-occupied Belgium.
[6] In the aftermath of the assassination of the collaborator Paul Collin, leading journalist and editor-in-chief of the Rexist collaborationist newspapers "Le Nouveau Journal" and "Cassandre", Pevtschin was arrested by the Gestapo on 21 May 1943.
[7] For her service during the war, she was made Officer of Order of the Crown with palms, awarded Military Cross and promoted to the rank of captain ARA (Intelligence and Action Agent [fr]).