Holocaust Victims Call On Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Statements.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage be honest and apologise for reported anti-Jewish taunts he is said to have made toward Jewish schoolmates during his school days.

The political party leader has previously stated he never insulted anyone with malicious intent, suggesting it may have been mere "childish teasing".

"As Shoah survivors, we comprehend the profound danger of bigoted language – for we have seen where such words ultimately lead," stated the survivors in a letter.

"We must be unambiguous: praising Hitler, mimicking gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not teasing. Not among children. Not under any circumstances."

A Pointed Inquiry

The letter asks straightforward questions to the party leader: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ and mimicked gas chambers? Did you expose your fellow pupils to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Signatories

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

• Hedi Argent, who saw the murder of 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was confined to a ghetto before escaping in 1942 and spending the rest of the war as a fugitive.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated.

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

Mounting Testimony

This intervention is a response to the dismissal of related allegations by more than two dozen ex-schoolmates and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a deputy leader.

Since the initial report, additional former pupils have shared their stories. 28 people connected to the school now state they saw prejudiced actions by him.

One prominent testimony comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who has stated that a teenage Farage would sidle up to him and say the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "send them to the gas chambers", sometimes adding a long hiss to imitate the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Other former pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds have likewise come forward with stories of targeted insults.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was referred to as a "Paki" and has labelled as rubbish the claim that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another student of Asian heritage 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: "If you deny saying those words, are you claiming that dozens of individuals are fabricating their stories? If you did say them, now is the time to acknowledge you were wrong and apologise."

"Those who seek to govern our country should under no circumstances divide people by race or religion. Antisemitic hatred must never be normalised. This moment is about ethical duty. The decision is your own, Mr Farage."