Holocaust Survivors Demand Nigel Farage to Make Amends Over Reported Antisemitic Remarks.

A group of Shoah survivors has publicly demanded that Nigel Farage be honest and issue an apology for alleged antisemitic abuse he reportedly directed toward Jewish pupils during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has previously stated he never racially abused anyone with malicious intent, framing it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

"Being Holocaust survivors, we comprehend the grave risk of hateful words – for we have witnessed where such words can lead," declared the survivors in a open letter.

"It is crucial to understand: lauding Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not teasing. Not on a schoolyard. Not under any circumstances."

A Pointed Inquiry

The correspondence puts forth blunt questions to the public figure: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ while mimicking gas chambers? Did you expose your classmates to bigoted harassment?"

Those Who Signed

The group of eleven survivors features individuals with harrowing personal stories from the Nazi genocide.

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

The remaining survivors 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 characterisation of similar allegations by more than two dozen or more alumni and teachers as "made-up twaddle" by a high-ranking official.

Following the publication, more contemporaries have shared their stories. Twenty-eight former pupils and teachers now state they observed prejudiced actions by him.

One prominent testimony comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish award-winning director, who said that a teenage Farage would approach him and repeat the phrases "Hitler was right" and "gas them", on occasion including a hiss to simulate the sound of poison gas.

Further Allegations

More individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds have also spoken publicly with accounts of targeted insults.

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

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal asks a concluding challenge to Farage: "By denying saying those words, is your position that dozens of individuals are not telling the truth? If the words were spoken, now is the moment to take responsibility and apologise."

"People who aspire to lead our country should under no circumstances create division by race or religion. Hatred of Jews must never become acceptable. This moment is about personal accountability. The decision is your own, Mr Farage."