Holocaust Victims Demand Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Remarks.

A collective of Shoah survivors has publicly demanded that Nigel Farage admit the facts and issue an apology for alleged antisemitic comments attributed to him toward Jewish students during his time at school.

The political party leader has said he never racially abused anyone with the aim to hurt, suggesting it may have been mere "playground banter".

"Being Shoah survivors, we understand the grave risk of words of hatred – for we have witnessed where such words can lead," stated the survivors in a missive.

"We must be unambiguous: praising Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not teasing. Not on a schoolyard. Not anywhere."

A Pointed Inquiry

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 expose your fellow pupils to bigoted harassment?"

The Signatories

The collective of eleven survivors contains individuals with harrowing personal experiences from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who saw the murder of 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was imprisoned in a ghetto before fleeing in 1942 and spending the rest of the war in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to 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 intervention is a response to the rejection of related allegations by more than two dozen former pupils and teachers as "made-up twaddle" by a deputy leader.

After the story broke, more contemporaries have come forward. 28 people connected to the school now state they saw prejudiced actions by him.

One well-known account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born award-winning director, who said 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 making a prolonged hissing sound to imitate the sound of gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Additional alumni from diverse backgrounds have likewise shared experiences with accounts of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was called a "racial slur" and has rejected the claim that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another student of Asian heritage characterised him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "racial bullying".

A Concluding Demand

The final appeal puts forth an ultimate challenge to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, is your position that dozens of individuals are not telling the truth? If you did say them, now is the time to acknowledge you were wrong and apologise."

"People who hope to lead our country should not ever create division by race or religion. Hatred of Jews must never become acceptable. This moment is about ethical duty. The choice is your own, Mr Farage."