Shoah Victims Demand Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Remarks.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has called for that Nigel Farage be honest and express remorse for alleged antisemitic abuse he is said to have made toward Jewish pupils during his time at school.

The political party leader has previously stated he never targeted anyone with malicious intent, framing it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

"Being Holocaust survivors, we comprehend the deadly peril of words of hatred – because we have witnessed where such words can lead," wrote the survivors in a missive.

"We must be unambiguous: lauding Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not banter. Not among children. Not ever."

An Unequivocal Demand

The document poses straightforward questions to the party leader: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ while mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your fellow pupils to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Signatories

The collective of eleven survivors features individuals with harrowing personal stories from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was held in a ghetto before escaping in 1942 and living through the rest of the war as a fugitive.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated.

Other signatories include Janine Webber, Edith Jayne, Helen Aronson, Ruth Barnett, John Fieldsend, Susan Pollack, Hanneke Dye and Agnes Kaposi.

Growing Accounts

This public letter follows the dismissal of related testimony by more than several dozen ex-schoolmates and teachers as "made-up twaddle" by a deputy leader.

After the story broke, further individuals from that era have spoken out. Nearly thirty ex-students and educators now claim they saw prejudiced actions by him.

One notable testimony comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish award-winning director, who has stated that a teenage Farage would approach him and repeat the phrases "Hitler was correct" and "gas them", on occasion making a prolonged hissing sound to imitate the sound of the gas chambers.

A Broader Pattern

Other former pupils from ethnic minorities have also spoken publicly with allegations of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was referred to as a "racial slur" and has rejected the claim that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another pupil of Asian descent characterised him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "racial intimidation".

A Concluding Demand

The final appeal asks a concluding dilemma to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, do you mean that 20 former classmates and teachers are not telling the truth? Should the allegations be true, now is the opportunity to acknowledge you were wrong and make amends."

"People who hope to lead our country should under no circumstances create division by ethnicity or faith. Anti-Jewish bigotry must always be confronted. This moment is about moral responsibility. The choice is yours, Mr Farage."