Holocaust Victims Call On Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Reported Anti-Jewish Comments.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage admit the facts and issue an apology for alleged antisemitic taunts he is said to have made toward Jewish schoolmates during his school days.

The political party leader has previously stated he never targeted anyone with the aim to hurt, framing it may have been mere "childish teasing".

"Being Holocaust survivors, we understand the deadly peril of hateful words – because we have experienced firsthand where such words inevitably end," declared the survivors in a open letter.

"Let us be clear: expressing admiration for Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not simple joking. Not in a playground. Not anywhere."

A Pointed Inquiry

The document 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 target your peers to antisemitic abuse?"

The Survivors

The group of 11 survivors contains individuals with harrowing personal histories from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was confined to a ghetto before breaking out in 1942 and spending the rest of the war in hiding.
• 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 intervention comes after the rejection of similar accounts by more than several dozen ex-schoolmates and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a deputy leader.

Following the publication, more contemporaries have spoken out. 28 ex-students and educators now claim they observed bigoted conduct by him.

One prominent account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who has stated that a young Farage would come near him and utter the phrases "Hitler was correct" and "send them to the gas chambers", sometimes making a hiss to simulate the sound of poison gas.

Additional Claims

Other former pupils from ethnic minorities have likewise spoken publicly with stories of direct abuse.

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

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal poses a final dilemma to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, is your position that scores of witnesses are not telling the truth? Should the allegations be true, now is the opportunity to take responsibility and make amends."

"Those who hope to lead our country should never divide people by ethnicity or faith. Hatred of Jews must never be normalised. This moment is about ethical duty. The decision is yours, Mr Farage."