Shoah Survivors Call On Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Statements.

A collective of Shoah survivors has publicly demanded that Nigel Farage tell the truth and express remorse for alleged antisemitic abuse attributed to him toward Jewish students during his youth.

The political party leader has claimed he never targeted anyone with deliberate cruelty, suggesting it may have been mere "playground banter".

"As Shoah survivors, we understand the profound danger of words of hatred – because we have seen where such words inevitably end," stated the survivors in a missive.

"It is crucial to understand: praising Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or hurling racist abuse is not teasing. Not on a schoolyard. Not under any circumstances."

A Direct Question

The letter puts forth blunt questions to the political figure: "Did you say ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your fellow pupils to antisemitic abuse?"

The Survivors

The collective of eleven survivors includes individuals with harrowing personal experiences from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who was bereaved of 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was held in a ghetto before escaping in 1942 and spending the rest of the war as a fugitive.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later incarcerated at 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.

Increasing Allegations

This intervention comes after the dismissal of corroborating allegations by more than two dozen ex-schoolmates and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a deputy leader.

Since the initial report, further individuals from that era have spoken out. Twenty-eight people connected to the school now claim they observed prejudiced actions by him.

One well-known allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born award-winning director, who recalls that a young Farage would come near him and repeat the phrases "Hitler was correct" and "gas them", sometimes adding a hiss to mimic the sound of gas chambers.

Additional Claims

More individuals from ethnic minorities have likewise come forward with allegations of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was referred to as a "racial slur" and has dismissed the notion that such actions were without intent.
• Another individual with Asian roots characterised him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

The Ultimate Question

The missive from survivors poses a final question to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, do you mean that dozens of individuals are not telling the truth? Should the allegations be true, now is the time to take responsibility and make amends."

"Individuals who seek to govern our country should never create division by background or belief. Anti-Jewish bigotry must never be normalised. This moment is about moral responsibility. The choice is your own, Mr Farage."