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

A collective of Shoah survivors has publicly demanded that Nigel Farage tell the truth and apologise for alleged antisemitic comments he is said to have made toward Jewish pupils during his school days.

The political party leader has claimed he never racially abused anyone with deliberate cruelty, proposing it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

"As Shoah survivors, we comprehend the grave risk of hateful words – for we have experienced firsthand where such words ultimately lead," stated the survivors in a missive.

"It is crucial to understand: praising Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not banter. Not on a schoolyard. Not under any circumstances."

An Unequivocal Demand

The document poses straightforward questions to the public figure: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your fellow pupils to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Survivors

The collective of eleven survivors includes individuals with devastating personal stories from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who was bereaved of 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was imprisoned in a ghetto before fleeing in 1942 and spending the rest of the war as a fugitive.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later incarcerated at Bergen-Belsen, where she was rescued.

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

Mounting Testimony

This action is a response to the characterisation of similar accounts by more than two dozen or more alumni and teachers as "complete fiction" by a deputy leader.

Following the publication, additional former pupils have spoken out. 28 ex-students and educators now state they saw racist or antisemitic behaviour by him.

One notable allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born award-winning director, who has stated that a young Farage would sidle up to him and utter the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "send them to the gas chambers", at times including a long hiss to mimic the sound of poison gas.

A Broader Pattern

Other former pupils from ethnic minorities have also come forward with allegations of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was referred to as a "Paki" and has dismissed the idea that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another individual with Asian roots characterised him as an "blatant racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "racial intimidation".

The Survivors' Final Appeal

The missive from survivors puts forth an ultimate question to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, are you claiming that scores of witnesses are lying? Should the allegations be true, now is the moment to admit your error and apologise."

"People who seek to govern our country should not ever create division by race or religion. Hatred of Jews must always be confronted. This moment is about personal accountability. The decision is your own, Mr Farage."