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

A coalition of Shoah survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage tell the truth and issue an apology for alleged anti-Jewish abuse he is said to have made toward Jewish schoolmates during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has said he never racially abused anyone with deliberate cruelty, suggesting it may have been mere "playground banter".

"Being Holocaust survivors, we comprehend the profound danger of bigoted language – for we have experienced firsthand where such words inevitably end," wrote the survivors in a missive.

"Let us be clear: praising Hitler, mimicking gas chambers, or hurling racist abuse is not banter. Not among children. Not under any circumstances."

An Unequivocal Demand

The correspondence puts forth blunt questions to the political figure: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ while mimicking gas chambers? Did you target your fellow pupils to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Survivors

The collective of eleven survivors includes individuals with deeply traumatic personal experiences from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was confined to a ghetto before escaping in 1942 and living through the rest of the war as a fugitive.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was rescued.

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

Growing Accounts

This action comes after the rejection of related allegations by more than two dozen or more ex-schoolmates and teachers as "complete fiction" by a deputy leader.

Since the initial report, more contemporaries have shared their stories. Nearly thirty people connected to the school now assert they saw prejudiced actions by him.

One prominent account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who said that a young Farage would come near him and say the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "gas them", at times including a long hiss to mimic the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

More individuals from diverse backgrounds have additionally shared experiences with stories of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was referred to as a "Paki" and has dismissed the claim that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another student of Asian heritage portrayed him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

The Survivors' Final Appeal

The missive from survivors asks a concluding challenge to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, do you mean that 20 former classmates and teachers are lying? If the words were spoken, now is the opportunity to acknowledge you were wrong and say sorry."

"People who hope to lead our country should not ever sow discord by ethnicity or faith. Hatred of Jews must never be normalised. This moment is about personal accountability. The decision is your own, Mr Farage."