Shoah Victims Urge Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Reported Anti-Jewish Remarks.

A group of Holocaust survivors has called for that Nigel Farage be honest and apologise for reported anti-Jewish taunts he is said to have made toward Jewish students during his time at school.

The Reform UK leader has said he never targeted anyone with deliberate cruelty, proposing it may have been mere "childish teasing".

"As Holocaust survivors, we comprehend the profound danger of bigoted language – because we have seen where such words inevitably end," stated the survivors in a missive.

"It is crucial to understand: lauding Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not simple joking. Not on a schoolyard. Not ever."

An Unequivocal Demand

The correspondence poses straightforward questions to the public figure: "Did you say ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your peers to bigoted harassment?"

The Signatories

The group of 11 survivors includes individuals with deeply traumatic personal histories from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was held in a ghetto before breaking out in 1942 and spending the rest of the war in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated.

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

Mounting Testimony

This intervention is a response to the rejection of corroborating allegations by more than two dozen or more alumni and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a high-ranking official.

Since the initial report, more contemporaries have come forward. Nearly thirty former pupils and teachers now claim they witnessed prejudiced actions by him.

One notable allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who recalls that a teenage Farage would approach him and repeat the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "gas them", on occasion making a prolonged hissing sound to simulate the sound of gas chambers.

Additional Claims

Additional alumni from ethnic minorities have likewise spoken publicly with accounts of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was branded a "racial slur" and has dismissed the notion that such actions were without intent.
• Another student of Asian heritage characterised him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell had a point" as a form of "racial intimidation".

The Ultimate Question

The survivors' letter asks a concluding dilemma to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, is your position that scores of witnesses are not telling the truth? If you did say them, now is the moment to take responsibility and make amends."

"Individuals who seek to govern our country should never divide people by ethnicity or faith. Hatred of Jews must always be confronted. This moment is about personal accountability. The choice is yours, Mr Farage."