World War II broke out in 1939 and Greeces' entry on the 28th October 1940 before she could finish her schooling.
During the war, Sarivaxevani (later Georges Sari or Sarri) joined the Resistance and fought with the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON).
[2] She graduated while Greece was still under Nazi occupation and began taking acting lessons at Dimitris Rontiris' drama school.
She worked various jobs while living there, while also enrolling as a student at the Charles Dullin School of Dramatic Art.
That summer, deprived as she was of any means of expression, she wrote her first novel – The Treasure of Vaghia – which started off like a game together with the children who surrounded her.