Shoah Victims Urge Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Statements.

A collective of Shoah survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage admit the facts and express remorse for reported anti-Jewish comments he reportedly directed toward Jewish students during his school days.

The political party leader has said he never insulted anyone with deliberate cruelty, suggesting it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

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

"It is crucial to understand: lauding Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not simple joking. Not among children. Not under any circumstances."

An Unequivocal Demand

The letter poses straightforward questions to the political figure: "Did you say ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your fellow pupils to bigoted harassment?"

Those Who Signed

The group of 11 survivors contains individuals with deeply traumatic personal stories from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who was bereaved of 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was confined to 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.

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

Growing Accounts

This intervention comes after the characterisation of similar accounts by more than two dozen alumni and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a deputy leader.

After the story broke, more contemporaries have spoken out. Twenty-eight former pupils and teachers now assert they observed prejudiced actions by him.

One prominent account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who recalls that a teenage Farage would approach him and say the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "send them to the gas chambers", at times adding a prolonged hissing sound to mimic the sound of gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Additional alumni from ethnic minorities have likewise spoken publicly with stories of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was referred to as a "racial slur" and has dismissed the notion that such actions were without intent.
• Another individual with Asian roots described him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "racial intimidation".

A Concluding Demand

The missive from survivors asks a concluding challenge to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, do you mean that dozens of individuals are not telling the truth? Should the allegations be true, now is the moment to acknowledge you were wrong and apologise."

"Those who hope to lead our country should never create division by race or religion. Anti-Jewish bigotry must always be confronted. This moment is about moral responsibility. The path forward is yours, Mr Farage."