Shoah Survivors Call On Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Remarks.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has called for that Nigel Farage be honest and express remorse for reported antisemitic abuse attributed to him toward Jewish pupils during his youth.

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

"As Holocaust survivors, we comprehend the grave risk of words of hatred – for we have experienced firsthand where such words can lead," stated the survivors in a letter.

"We must be unambiguous: lauding Hitler, mimicking gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not teasing. Not on a schoolyard. Not ever."

A Pointed Inquiry

The letter asks 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 target your classmates to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Signatories

The collective of 11 survivors contains individuals with harrowing personal experiences from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was imprisoned in a ghetto before fleeing in 1942 and spending the rest of the war concealed.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later incarcerated at Bergen-Belsen, where she was freed.

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

Mounting Testimony

This action comes after the dismissal of related accounts by more than several dozen alumni and teachers as "complete fiction" by a senior party figure.

Following the publication, more contemporaries have spoken out. Twenty-eight ex-students and educators now state they saw prejudiced actions by him.

One well-known account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish award-winning director, who has stated that a young Farage would sidle up to him and utter the phrases "Hitler was right" and "send them to the gas chambers", on occasion making a long hiss to imitate the sound of poison gas.

Further Allegations

More individuals from diverse backgrounds have also spoken publicly with allegations of targeted insults.

• Cyrus Oshidar said he was branded a "Paki" and has labelled as rubbish the claim that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another individual with Asian roots described him as an "blatant racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "racial intimidation".

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal asks a concluding challenge to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, do you mean that 20 former classmates and teachers are lying? Should the allegations be true, now is the time to take responsibility and say sorry."

"Those who aspire to lead our country should not ever divide people by ethnicity or faith. Anti-Jewish bigotry must always be confronted. This moment is about ethical duty. The decision is yours, Mr Farage."