Shoah Survivors Urge Nigel Farage to Make Amends Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Comments.

A coalition of Holocaust survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage admit the facts and issue an apology for reported antisemitic taunts he reportedly directed toward Jewish pupils during his school days.

The political party leader has claimed he never targeted anyone with the aim to hurt, framing it may have been mere "playground banter".

"As Holocaust survivors, we understand the profound danger of words of hatred – because we have seen where such words ultimately lead," declared the survivors in a missive.

"We must be unambiguous: praising Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not simple joking. Not among children. Not under any circumstances."

A Direct Question

The document puts forth direct questions to the political figure: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your peers to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Survivors

The collective of eleven survivors includes individuals with harrowing personal experiences 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 living through the rest of the war as a fugitive.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to 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.

Increasing Allegations

This intervention comes after the dismissal of corroborating accounts by more than two dozen or more ex-schoolmates and teachers as "complete fiction" by a high-ranking official.

After the story broke, additional former pupils have shared their stories. 28 ex-students and educators now assert they witnessed prejudiced actions by him.

One well-known allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish award-winning director, who said that a teenage Farage would approach him and say the phrases "Hitler was correct" and "send them to the gas chambers", on occasion adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of gas chambers.

Additional Claims

More individuals from ethnic minorities have additionally shared experiences with accounts of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was referred to as a "Paki" and has labelled as rubbish the notion that such actions were without intent.
• Another pupil of Asian descent characterised him as an "blatant racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "racial intimidation".

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal poses a final challenge to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, do you mean that scores of witnesses are fabricating their stories? If you did say them, now is the time to acknowledge you were wrong and apologise."

"People who hope to lead our country should under no circumstances divide people by race or religion. Anti-Jewish bigotry must never become acceptable. This moment is about moral responsibility. The path forward is yours, Mr Farage."