Holocaust Victims Urge Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Alleged Antisemitic Comments.

A coalition of Shoah survivors has called for that Nigel Farage admit the facts and apologise for alleged anti-Jewish abuse he is said to have made toward Jewish pupils during his time at school.

The Reform UK leader has claimed he never insulted anyone with deliberate cruelty, proposing it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

"Being Holocaust survivors, we understand the grave risk of hateful words – for we have seen where such words inevitably end," declared the survivors in a open letter.

"It is crucial to understand: expressing admiration for Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not teasing. Not among children. Not under any circumstances."

An Unequivocal Demand

The letter asks straightforward questions to the public figure: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ and mimicked gas chambers? Did you target your fellow pupils to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Signatories

The group of eleven survivors contains individuals with harrowing personal experiences from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who was bereaved 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 deported to 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 is a response to the rejection of similar accounts by more than two dozen or more former pupils and teachers as "complete fiction" by a deputy leader.

Since the initial report, additional former pupils have shared their stories. Nearly thirty people connected to the school now assert they observed bigoted conduct by him.

One prominent allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who recalls that a teenage Farage would come near him and repeat the phrases "Hitler was right" and "gas them", sometimes including a long hiss to mimic the sound of gas chambers.

Additional Claims

More individuals from ethnic minorities have also spoken publicly with accounts of targeted insults.

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was branded a "Paki" and has rejected the notion that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another pupil of Asian descent portrayed him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "racial bullying".

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal poses a final challenge to Farage: "By denying saying those words, is your position that scores of witnesses are fabricating their stories? Should the allegations be true, now is the opportunity to acknowledge you were wrong and apologise."

"Individuals who hope to lead our country should not ever create division by ethnicity or faith. Anti-Jewish bigotry must always be confronted. This moment is about personal accountability. The choice is yours, Mr Farage."