Holocaust Victims Call On Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Remarks.

A group of Holocaust survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage tell the truth and express remorse for reported anti-Jewish comments attributed to him toward Jewish schoolmates during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has claimed he never racially abused anyone with the aim to hurt, suggesting it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

"Being Holocaust survivors, we grasp the profound danger of words of hatred – for we have witnessed where such words inevitably end," stated the survivors in a open letter.

"We must be unambiguous: praising Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not simple joking. Not among children. Not under any circumstances."

An Unequivocal Demand

The correspondence asks direct questions to the public figure: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ while mimicking gas chambers? Did you target your classmates to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Signatories

The group of 11 survivors contains individuals with deeply traumatic personal experiences from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who was bereaved of 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was confined to a ghetto before escaping in 1942 and living through the rest of the war in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later incarcerated at Bergen-Belsen, where she was freed.

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

Increasing Allegations

This action follows the dismissal of corroborating testimony by more than several dozen former pupils and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a senior party figure.

Following the publication, more contemporaries have spoken out. Nearly thirty ex-students and educators now state they witnessed bigoted conduct by him.

One well-known account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who said that a teenage Farage would sidle up to him and say the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "send them to the gas chambers", at times making a long hiss to imitate the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Other former pupils from diverse backgrounds have also shared experiences with accounts of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was called a "Paki" and has dismissed the notion that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another student of Asian heritage described him as an "blatant racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell had a point" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

The Survivors' Final Appeal

The missive from survivors asks a concluding question to Farage: "By denying saying those words, is your position that dozens of individuals are fabricating their stories? If you did say them, now is the moment to admit your error and say sorry."

"Those who hope to lead our country should never sow discord by ethnicity or faith. Anti-Jewish bigotry must never become acceptable. This moment is about moral responsibility. The path forward is yours, Mr Farage."