In 1938, Sarafis was introduced to Marion Pascoe, an English student of the University of Oxford who visited the island to pursue her studies of archaeology.

Their private conversations over political beliefs and the History of Greece resulted in her lifelong interest in Greek matters.

Initially in contact with the Republican EDES and EKKA movements, in March 1943 he was arrested by guerillas of the communist EAM/Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS).

After the military and political defeat of EAM in the Dekemvriana, he was captured and exiled to Serifos where Marion re-established correspondence with him in 1946.

He and his wife Marion were taking a walk when an automobile driven by a non-commissioned officer of the United States Air Force collided with them.

George V. Allen, the then United States Ambassador to Greece, ordered the airman to be handed to the Greek authorities for trial.

However fellow politicians of the United Democratic Left (and his wife Marion) strongly suspected the incident to be a "premeditated murder" and reported their suspicions to the press.