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

A collective of Shoah survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage admit the facts and apologise for alleged antisemitic comments he is said to have made toward Jewish students during his youth.

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

"As Holocaust survivors, we comprehend the profound danger of bigoted language – because we have witnessed where such words ultimately lead," declared the survivors in a open letter.

"Let us be clear: praising Hitler, mimicking gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not simple joking. Not in a playground. Not ever."

A Direct Question

The document puts forth direct questions to the public figure: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ and mimicked gas chambers? Did you target your fellow pupils to bigoted harassment?"

Those Who Signed

The group of eleven survivors contains individuals with devastating personal experiences from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was held in a ghetto before breaking out in 1942 and spending the rest of the war in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated.

Additional names on the letter 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 or more ex-schoolmates and teachers as "complete fiction" by a senior party figure.

Since the initial report, additional former pupils have shared their stories. 28 former pupils and teachers now claim they saw racist or antisemitic behaviour by him.

One notable allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born award-winning director, who said that a young Farage would sidle up to him and say the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "send them to the gas chambers", sometimes making a hiss to simulate the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Additional alumni from ethnic minorities have additionally spoken publicly with accounts of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was called a "racial slur" and has rejected the notion that such actions were without intent.
• Another pupil of Asian descent described him as an "blatant racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "racial bullying".

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal poses a final challenge to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, is your position that 20 former classmates and teachers are lying? If the words were spoken, now is the opportunity to admit your error and make amends."

"Individuals who seek to govern our country should under no circumstances divide people by ethnicity or faith. Hatred of Jews must never become acceptable. This moment is about moral responsibility. The decision is your own, Mr Farage."