Shoah Victims Call On Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Alleged Antisemitic Remarks.

A group of Shoah survivors has publicly demanded that Nigel Farage be honest and issue an apology for reported antisemitic taunts attributed to him toward Jewish students during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has previously stated he never racially abused anyone with deliberate cruelty, proposing it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

"As Shoah survivors, we grasp the profound danger of words of hatred – for we have experienced firsthand where such words ultimately lead," stated the survivors in a missive.

"It is crucial to understand: lauding Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not banter. Not on a schoolyard. Not anywhere."

A Direct Question

The correspondence poses direct questions to the party leader: "Did you say ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ and mimicked gas chambers? Did you subject your peers to antisemitic abuse?"

Those Who Signed

The collective of 11 survivors contains individuals with deeply traumatic personal experiences 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 escaping in 1942 and spending the rest of the war concealed.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated.

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

Increasing Allegations

This public letter comes after the characterisation of similar allegations by more than two dozen former pupils and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a senior party figure.

Following the publication, additional former pupils have spoken out. Nearly thirty ex-students and educators now assert they saw bigoted conduct by him.

One notable allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish award-winning director, who said that a teenage Farage would come near him and utter the phrases "Hitler was right" and "gas them", at times making a long hiss to mimic the sound of poison gas.

Additional Claims

Additional alumni from ethnic minorities have additionally spoken publicly with stories of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar said he was called a "Paki" and has rejected the claim that such actions were without intent.
• Another individual with Asian roots portrayed him as an "blatant racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was correct" as a form of "racial bullying".

The Ultimate Question

The survivors' letter poses a final dilemma to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, is your position that scores of witnesses are fabricating their stories? If you did say them, now is the opportunity to admit your error and make amends."

"Those who hope to lead our country should under no circumstances divide people by background or belief. Anti-Jewish bigotry must never become acceptable. This moment is about ethical duty. The choice is yours, Mr Farage."