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

A group of Shoah survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage admit the facts and express remorse for reported anti-Jewish comments he is said to have made toward Jewish schoolmates during his school days.

The political party leader has said he never targeted anyone with deliberate cruelty, framing it may have been mere "playground banter".

"As Shoah survivors, we understand the profound danger of bigoted language – for we have witnessed where such words ultimately lead," stated the survivors in a open letter.

"Let us be clear: lauding Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not banter. Not on a schoolyard. Not under any circumstances."

An Unequivocal Demand

The letter poses straightforward questions to the political figure: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you expose your peers to bigoted harassment?"

Those Who Signed

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

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was imprisoned in a ghetto before escaping in 1942 and living through the rest of the war concealed.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later incarcerated at 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.

Increasing Allegations

This public letter is a response to the rejection of related allegations by more than several dozen alumni and teachers as "made-up twaddle" by a deputy leader.

Since the initial report, additional former pupils have shared their stories. Nearly thirty people connected to the school now assert they observed racist or antisemitic behaviour by him.

One prominent allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who recalls that a teenage Farage would come near him and utter the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "gas them", at times making a hiss to imitate the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Other former pupils from ethnic minorities have likewise shared experiences with accounts of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was called a "Paki" and has labelled as rubbish the notion that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another pupil of Asian descent described him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell had a point" as a form of "racial intimidation".

The Survivors' Final Appeal

The missive from survivors puts forth an ultimate question to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, are you claiming that 20 former classmates and teachers are not telling the truth? Should the allegations be true, now is the moment to take responsibility and say sorry."

"People who aspire to lead our country should not ever create division by ethnicity or faith. Anti-Jewish bigotry must always be confronted. This moment is about ethical duty. The path forward is your own, Mr Farage."