Shoah Victims Demand Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Statements.

A group of Shoah survivors has called for that Nigel Farage be honest and issue an apology for reported antisemitic comments he is said to have made toward Jewish schoolmates during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has previously stated he never insulted anyone with the aim to hurt, suggesting it may have been mere "playground banter".

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

"We must be unambiguous: praising Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not banter. Not among children. Not ever."

An Unequivocal Demand

The letter poses direct questions to the party leader: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ while mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your classmates to anti-Jewish taunts?"

Those Who Signed

The collective of eleven survivors contains individuals with devastating personal stories from the Nazi genocide.

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

Additional names on the letter include Janine Webber, Edith Jayne, Helen Aronson, Ruth Barnett, John Fieldsend, Susan Pollack, Hanneke Dye and Agnes Kaposi.

Increasing Allegations

This public letter follows the dismissal of similar accounts by more than several dozen ex-schoolmates and teachers as "made-up twaddle" by a high-ranking official.

Since the initial report, more contemporaries have come forward. Nearly thirty people connected to the school now assert they witnessed bigoted conduct by him.

One prominent allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born award-winning director, who recalls that a young Farage would approach him and repeat the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "send them to the gas chambers", at times adding a long hiss to mimic the sound of the gas chambers.

Additional Claims

Additional alumni from minority ethnic backgrounds have additionally shared experiences with accounts of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was called a "Paki" and has labelled as rubbish the notion 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 "ethnic harassment".

The Survivors' Final Appeal

The survivors' letter puts forth an ultimate question to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, are you claiming that scores of witnesses are fabricating their stories? Should the allegations be true, now is the opportunity to acknowledge you were wrong and say sorry."

"People who aspire to lead our country should not ever create division by race or religion. Hatred of Jews must never become acceptable. This moment is about personal accountability. The path forward is your own, Mr Farage."