Holocaust Victims Call On Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Alleged Antisemitic Comments.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage admit the facts and express remorse for reported antisemitic taunts attributed to him toward Jewish pupils during his school days.

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

"As Holocaust survivors, we understand the deadly peril of bigoted language – because we have witnessed where such words ultimately lead," stated the survivors in a missive.

"It is crucial to understand: expressing admiration for Hitler, mimicking gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not simple joking. Not on a schoolyard. Not anywhere."

A Direct Question

The correspondence asks blunt questions to the party leader: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you target your fellow pupils to bigoted harassment?"

The Signatories

The group of 11 survivors includes individuals with harrowing personal histories from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who saw the murder of 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was imprisoned in a ghetto before breaking out in 1942 and living through the rest of the war concealed.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was rescued.

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

Increasing Allegations

This public letter is a response to the dismissal of corroborating testimony by more than two dozen or more ex-schoolmates and teachers as "complete fiction" by a high-ranking official.

Following the publication, additional former pupils have spoken out. 28 ex-students and educators now state they witnessed bigoted conduct by him.

One notable allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who said that a young Farage would come near him and say the phrases "Hitler was correct" and "gas them", sometimes making a hiss to mimic the sound of poison gas.

Further Allegations

Other former pupils from diverse backgrounds have likewise shared experiences with stories of targeted insults.

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was called a "Paki" and has dismissed the idea that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another pupil of Asian descent portrayed him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell had a point" as a form of "racial intimidation".

The Ultimate Question

The survivors' letter asks a concluding challenge to Farage: "By denying saying those words, is your position that dozens of individuals are lying? Should the allegations be true, now is the moment to admit your error and say sorry."

"Those who seek to govern our country should under no circumstances divide people by background or belief. Antisemitic hatred must never be normalised. This moment is about personal accountability. The choice is yours, Mr Farage."