Anthony Faramus Anthony Charles Faramus was an actor and author who was born in Jersey in 1920 and died in Britain in 1990 . The autobiographical accounts of his survival of Fort de Romainville , Buchenwald and the Mauthausen - Gusen concentration camp complex were published as " The Faramus Story " in 1954 and " Journey Into Darkness " in 1990 . Two books about Agent Zigzag , the double agent Eddie Chapman , also document aspects of Faramus ’ s imprisonment in Jersey , Paris and the concentration camps . Arrested . Faramus worked as a hairdresser in a Saint Helier salon and later , during the early stages of the German occupation of the Channel Islands , was employed in the kitchen of the Miramar Hotel . Under the conditions of military occupation , the administration of civil law and order was subject to the dictates of the German authorities , a state of affairs that some have described as collaboration . In December 1940 Faramus was arrested by the Jersey police , on the orders of the Feldgendarmerie , for an act of sabotage . The Jersey police had caught him in possession of an anti - Nazi leaflet and accused him of defrauding the state of ninety Occupation Marks . Faramus names Centenier Arthur Tostevin , an Honorary Police officer of St . Helier and Detective Constable Benjamin Shenton as the officials who had informed the Germans about his activities . He was sentenced to six months hard labour and incarcerated in H . M . Prison Jersey , sharing the same cell as Eddie Chapman . They arranged to meet - up after they were released from prison and consequently shared a flat . For a short period they ran a barber shop together . Their customers included civilians and German soldiers alike . Deported . The authorities suspected Faramus and Chapman of further involvement in acts of sabotage and they were re - arrested by the police late one night in November 1941 . As a political prisoner , Faramus was deported with Chapman by boat from St . Helier , Jersey to the port of Granville , in mainland Normandy , then in Occupied France . They were then taken by rail to Fort de Romainville in Paris where many people were interned before being deported to Auschwitz , Ravensbrück , Buchenwald and Dachau . After a year , Faramus along with other prisoners from Romainville , was taken in terrible conditions by train via Compiègne onto the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar , Germany . In chapter 7 of " Journey Into Darkness " , Faramus describes the crime for which he was taken out of the Buchenwald camp and forced on a journey to Mauthausen via Leipzig , Dresden and Prague . . . . a freezing cold morning , at my place of work — ‘ Kommando das Grab ' ( communal graves ) — I had momentarily set aside my shovel to blow into my hands and fingers . I had not seen the approach of the SS Warrant Officer . Failing to acknowledge the man ’ s presence and not coming to attention and removing my cap from my head until he had passed by was one crime , the interruption of my work without permission was another . I was punched and booted ; worse , my number ( E ) 42324 was noted in his book of reports . The Nazi Party defined Mauthausen as " Grade III " . Its purpose was to punish " Incorrigible Political Enemies of the Reich " with extermination through labour . In " Journey Into Darkness " Faramus acknowledges Captain Maurice Pertschuck who was murdered in Buchenwald in 1944 , Christopher Burney and Lt . Jack H . Taylor . In film footage gathered by the US Department of Defense after the 11th Armored Division of the 3rd US Army entered the camp on the 5th of May 1945 , Lt . Jack H . Taylor spoke about his capture , imprisonment and the conditions at Mauthausen . Faramus also mentions Pierre Serge Choumoff , a mathematician and engineer , imprisoned in Romainville and Mauthausen who later investigated the Mauthausen - Gusen complex . Post - War . For over a year after the war Faramus lived in Paris as he searched for some of the women and men that he had known whilst imprisoned in Fort de Romainville . During this period he lost a lung following surgery for tuberculosis which he contracted during his imprisonment in Mauthausen . He returned to Britain and after a series of jobs in hotels and bars Faramus was able to find work as an extra in various films produced at Pinewood Studios . Anthony Faramus emigrated to the USA with his wife Mary where they both had careers in the film industry . Faramus worked as an actor and played the roles of a British officer in The Colditz Story and a prisoner of war in King Rat . He also worked as Clark Gable ’ s butler and chauffeur . After living in California he and Mary moved back to Britain living in London and later in Farnham , Surrey . In the 1970s he joined the Hunt Saboteurs Association an organisation whose aim is to disrupt blood sports using direct action tactics . In the late 1980s Faramus was arrested during a fracas at a hunt in Hampshire . He refused to be bound over to keep the peace and was sent to prison for a month . Over a hundred people , including actors , hunt saboteurs and concentration camp survivors attended his funeral at St . Andrew ' s Parish Church in Farnham in 1990 . Dave Wetton , one of the founders of the hunt Saboteurs Association in the 1960s read a funeral address . The huge variety of mourners , with large varieties of anti establishment youth , theatrical " luvvies " and elderly concentration camp veterans drew the attention of one Farnham resident - who could be heard to say : " There must be someone famous being buried . "