Shoah Victims Demand Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Claimed Antisemitic Comments.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage be honest and express remorse for alleged anti-Jewish comments he is said to have made toward Jewish schoolmates during his youth.

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

"As Shoah survivors, we understand the deadly peril of bigoted language – for we have experienced firsthand where such words can lead," declared the survivors in a open letter.

"It is crucial to understand: praising Hitler, mimicking gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not teasing. Not in a playground. Not ever."

An Unequivocal Demand

The letter asks blunt questions to the public figure: "Did you say ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ and mimicked gas chambers? Did you subject your peers to antisemitic abuse?"

Those Who Signed

The collective of 11 survivors features individuals with devastating personal stories from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was confined to a ghetto before fleeing in 1942 and spending the rest of the war as a fugitive.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later moved to 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.

Increasing Allegations

This action follows the characterisation of related allegations by more than two dozen ex-schoolmates and teachers as "made-up twaddle" by a deputy leader.

Since the initial report, more contemporaries have come forward. Nearly thirty people connected to the school now claim they saw prejudiced actions by him.

One prominent testimony comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who recalls that a teenage Farage would sidle up to him and say the phrases "Hitler was correct" and "gas them", on occasion adding a prolonged hissing sound to imitate the sound of gas chambers.

Further Allegations

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

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was branded a "racial slur" and has dismissed the idea that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another individual with Asian roots characterised him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "racial bullying".

The Ultimate Question

The survivors' letter puts forth an ultimate question to Farage: "By denying saying those words, are you claiming that 20 former classmates and teachers are lying? If the words were spoken, now is the opportunity to acknowledge you were wrong and apologise."

"People who aspire to lead our country should not ever sow discord by ethnicity or faith. Hatred of Jews must never be normalised. This moment is about moral responsibility. The decision is yours, Mr Farage."