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

A collective of Holocaust survivors has called for that Nigel Farage tell the truth and apologise for reported anti-Jewish abuse attributed to him toward Jewish students during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has said he never insulted anyone with malicious intent, proposing it may have been mere "playground banter".

"Being Holocaust survivors, we grasp the profound danger of hateful words – for we have seen where such words ultimately lead," declared the survivors in a missive.

"We must be unambiguous: praising Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not teasing. Not on a schoolyard. Not ever."

A Direct Question

The document poses blunt questions to the party leader: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ and mimicked gas chambers? Did you expose your peers to antisemitic abuse?"

The Signatories

The collective of 11 survivors contains individuals with deeply traumatic personal histories from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who saw the murder of 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was held in a ghetto before fleeing in 1942 and living through the rest of the war concealed.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was freed.

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

Increasing Allegations

This public letter follows the rejection of corroborating accounts by more than two dozen alumni and teachers as "complete fiction" by a senior party figure.

Since the initial report, further individuals from that era have shared their stories. Nearly thirty ex-students and educators now claim they observed racist or antisemitic behaviour by him.

One prominent testimony comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who has stated that a young Farage would approach him and utter the phrases "Hitler was correct" and "gas them", at times making a long hiss to imitate the sound of poison gas.

Further Allegations

More individuals from ethnic minorities have additionally come forward with accounts of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was referred to as a "racial slur" and has labelled as rubbish the claim that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another individual with Asian roots characterised him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "racial bullying".

A Concluding Demand

The missive from survivors poses a final challenge to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, do you mean that dozens of individuals are not telling the truth? If the words were spoken, now is the time to acknowledge you were wrong and say sorry."

"People who seek to govern our country should not ever divide people by ethnicity or faith. Hatred of Jews must never become acceptable. This moment is about moral responsibility. The decision is yours, Mr Farage."