Shoah Victims Call On Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Comments.

A coalition of Shoah survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage admit the facts and issue an apology for alleged anti-Jewish taunts attributed to him toward Jewish pupils during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has said he never racially abused anyone with deliberate cruelty, framing it may have been mere "childish teasing".

"Being Holocaust survivors, we understand the grave risk of words of hatred – because we have witnessed where such words can lead," declared the survivors in a missive.

"Let us be clear: praising Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or hurling racist abuse is not simple joking. Not in a playground. Not under any circumstances."

A Pointed Inquiry

The correspondence puts forth blunt questions to the public figure: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your fellow pupils to antisemitic abuse?"

The Signatories

The group of eleven survivors features individuals with harrowing personal experiences from the Holocaust.

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

Additional names on the letter include Janine Webber, Edith Jayne, Helen Aronson, Ruth Barnett, John Fieldsend, Susan Pollack, Hanneke Dye and Agnes Kaposi.

Growing Accounts

This public letter comes after the dismissal of corroborating accounts by more than several dozen alumni and teachers as "complete fiction" by a high-ranking official.

After the story broke, additional former pupils have come forward. Twenty-eight people connected to the school now claim they saw bigoted conduct by him.

One notable allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who said that a young Farage would sidle up to him and utter the phrases "Hitler was right" and "gas them", on occasion including a prolonged hissing sound to imitate the sound of gas chambers.

Further Allegations

More individuals from diverse backgrounds have additionally shared experiences with stories of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar said he was referred to as a "racial slur" and has rejected the idea that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another student of Asian heritage portrayed him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

A Concluding Demand

The survivors' letter puts forth an ultimate dilemma to Farage: "By denying saying those words, is your position that dozens of individuals are fabricating their stories? If you did say them, now is the time to take responsibility and make amends."

"Those who aspire to lead our country should never sow discord by ethnicity or faith. Anti-Jewish bigotry must always be confronted. This moment is about ethical duty. The decision is yours, Mr Farage."