Geneviève Janssen-Pevtschin

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Geneviève Janssen-Pevtschin (24 February 1915 – 11 November 2001), also known Ginette Pevtschin, was a Belgian lawyer and the first woman magistrate in Belgium. She also was a distinguished member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II.

Biography

Born in Brussels on 24 February 1915 to Belgian Jewish parents of Russian descent, Geneviève Pevtschin studied law and graduated from the

underground newspapers published in German-occupied Belgium.[6]

In the aftermath of the assassination of the

Rexist collaborationist newspapers "Le Nouveau Journal" and "Cassandre", Pevtschin was arrested by the Gestapo on 21 May 1943. She was sentenced to six years of hard labor for her activities in La Libre Belgique and for her role in the Collin assassination.[5] She survived torture, imprisonment and forced-labour in Nazi Germany.[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]).[7][8]

After the war, she became the first Belgian woman magistrate when she was appointed judge to the tribunal of first instance in Brussels in 1948.[9] She married Marcel Janssen in 1949. In 1954 she became the first Belgian member of the European Commission on Human Rights where she served until 1960.[10] She was instrumental in the establishment of a permanent European Court for Human Rights in 1998.[5]

References

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  3. S2CID 144415512
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  4. OCLC 833340484
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  5. ^ a b c Wiener-Henrion, Jacqueline. "Geneviève Janssen-Pevtschin". jwa.org. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  6. ^ Maerten, Fabrice (2014). "La Libre Belgique | The Belgian War Press". warpress.cegesoma.be. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  7. ^ a b Wiener-Henrion, Jacqueline (2002). "Geneviève Janssen-Pevtschin" (PDF). Les Cahiers de la Mémoire Contemporaine (in French). pp. 147–161. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
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  9. ISBN 9782874632013
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  10. ISBN 978-1-138-80554-5
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