Holocaust Victims Demand Nigel Farage to Make Amends Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Comments.

A group of Shoah survivors has publicly demanded that Nigel Farage tell the truth and issue an apology for alleged antisemitic comments attributed to him toward Jewish schoolmates during his school days.

The political party leader has previously stated he never racially abused anyone with malicious intent, framing it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

"As Shoah survivors, we comprehend the profound danger of words of hatred – for we have experienced firsthand where such words can lead," declared the survivors in a open letter.

"It is crucial to understand: expressing admiration for Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or hurling racist abuse is not simple joking. Not on a schoolyard. Not anywhere."

An Unequivocal Demand

The document asks blunt questions to the political figure: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ while mimicking gas chambers? Did you target your peers to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Signatories

The collective of eleven survivors contains individuals with deeply traumatic personal stories from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who was bereaved of 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was imprisoned in a ghetto before fleeing in 1942 and living through the rest of the war in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated.

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

Mounting Testimony

This intervention follows the characterisation of corroborating testimony by more than two dozen ex-schoolmates and teachers as "complete fiction" by a senior party figure.

Since the initial report, further individuals from that era have spoken out. Nearly thirty ex-students and educators now claim they observed bigoted conduct by him.

One prominent account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who has stated that a young Farage would come near him and utter the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "gas them", on occasion including a hiss to imitate the sound of poison gas.

Further Allegations

More individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds have likewise shared experiences with allegations of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar said he was branded a "Paki" and has labelled as rubbish the notion that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another pupil of Asian descent characterised him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell had a point" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

The Ultimate Question

The survivors' letter asks a concluding challenge to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, do you mean that scores of witnesses are lying? Should the allegations be true, now is the opportunity to acknowledge you were wrong and say sorry."

"Those who seek to govern our country should under no circumstances sow discord by ethnicity or faith. Antisemitic hatred must always be confronted. This moment is about personal accountability. The path forward is your own, Mr Farage."