Anthony Charles Faramus (27 July 1920 â€" August 1990) was an actor,
author and hairdresser. He was born in Saint Peter, Jersey and died in
Surrey. 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 'ruse' to join the Nazis
as a collaborator and a spy, his imprisonment in Jersey, Paris and the
concentration camps.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.
In the spring of 1940 he attempted to join the Royal Air Force but was
not accepted.:44 Faramus was also a petty criminal and in December
1940, at the age of 20, he received a 6-month prison sentence for
obtaining £9 under false pretenses. Faramus was incarcerated in H.M.
Prison Jersey, sharing the same cell as Eddie Chapman, who later
described Faramus as "a hopeless crook".Under the conditions of
military occupation, the administration of civil law and order was
subject to the dictates of the German authorities. As at the time of
his arrest Faramus had in his possession an anti-Nazi leaflet, the
German authorities added 1 month to his sentence. Faramus names
Centenier Arthur Tostevin, an Honorary Police officer of Saint Helier
and Detective Constable Benjamin Shenton as the officials who had
informed the Germans about the leaflet.
author and hairdresser. He was born in Saint Peter, Jersey and died in
Surrey. 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 'ruse' to join the Nazis
as a collaborator and a spy, his imprisonment in Jersey, Paris and the
concentration camps.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.
In the spring of 1940 he attempted to join the Royal Air Force but was
not accepted.:44 Faramus was also a petty criminal and in December
1940, at the age of 20, he received a 6-month prison sentence for
obtaining £9 under false pretenses. Faramus was incarcerated in H.M.
Prison Jersey, sharing the same cell as Eddie Chapman, who later
described Faramus as "a hopeless crook".Under the conditions of
military occupation, the administration of civil law and order was
subject to the dictates of the German authorities. As at the time of
his arrest Faramus had in his possession an anti-Nazi leaflet, the
German authorities added 1 month to his sentence. Faramus names
Centenier Arthur Tostevin, an Honorary Police officer of Saint Helier
and Detective Constable Benjamin Shenton as the officials who had
informed the Germans about the leaflet.
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