Holocaust Survivors Call On Nigel Farage to Make Amends Over Reported Anti-Jewish Comments.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has publicly demanded that Nigel Farage tell the truth and express remorse for reported anti-Jewish comments he reportedly directed toward Jewish schoolmates during his youth.

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

"Being Holocaust survivors, we grasp the grave risk of bigoted language – because we have witnessed where such words can lead," declared the survivors in a letter.

"Let us be clear: praising Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not simple joking. Not in a playground. Not under any circumstances."

An Unequivocal Demand

The document poses straightforward questions to the party leader: "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 eleven survivors features individuals with harrowing personal experiences from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who saw the murder of 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was imprisoned in a ghetto before fleeing in 1942 and spending the rest of the war in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she was freed.

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 action comes after the dismissal of related testimony by more than several dozen alumni and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a senior party figure.

Following the publication, further individuals from that era have shared their stories. 28 ex-students and educators now state they saw bigoted conduct by him.

One well-known allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born award-winning director, who recalls that a teenage Farage would approach him and utter the phrases "Hitler was right" and "send them to the gas chambers", at times including a prolonged hissing sound to simulate the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Additional alumni from diverse backgrounds have likewise shared experiences with accounts of targeted insults.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was referred to as a "racial slur" and has labelled as rubbish the notion that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another student of Asian heritage portrayed him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

A Concluding Demand

The final appeal poses a final dilemma to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, do you mean that 20 former classmates and teachers are not telling the truth? If you did say them, now is the time to acknowledge you were wrong and apologise."

"Individuals who aspire to lead our country should under no circumstances create division by ethnicity or faith. Hatred of Jews must never become acceptable. This moment is about moral responsibility. The decision is your own, Mr Farage."