Holocaust Survivors Urge Nigel Farage to Make Amends Over Claimed Antisemitic Remarks.

A coalition of Shoah survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage be honest and express remorse for alleged anti-Jewish taunts he is said to have made toward Jewish students during his youth.

The Reform UK leader has previously stated he never targeted anyone with malicious intent, suggesting it may have been mere "playground banter".

"As Shoah survivors, we grasp the profound danger of hateful words – because we have seen where such words can lead," stated the survivors in a missive.

"We must be unambiguous: lauding Hitler, mimicking gas chambers, or hurling racist abuse is not teasing. Not on a schoolyard. Not anywhere."

A Pointed Inquiry

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

The Signatories

The collective of 11 survivors contains individuals with devastating personal stories from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was confined to a ghetto before breaking out in 1942 and living through the rest of the war as a fugitive.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later incarcerated at Bergen-Belsen, where she was rescued.

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 comes after the dismissal of related testimony by more than several dozen former pupils and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a deputy leader.

After the story broke, more contemporaries have shared their stories. Nearly thirty people connected to the school now claim they observed prejudiced actions by him.

One prominent testimony comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who has stated that a young Farage would come near him and say the phrases "Hitler was right" and "gas them", at times adding a prolonged hissing sound to imitate the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

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

• Cyrus Oshidar said he was referred to as a "Paki" and has dismissed the notion that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another student of Asian heritage described him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell had a point" as a form of "racial intimidation".

The Ultimate Question

The survivors' letter puts forth an ultimate question to Farage: "Should you continue to deny saying those words, do you mean that dozens of individuals are fabricating their stories? If the words were spoken, now is the time to acknowledge you were wrong and say sorry."

"Those who aspire to lead our country should not ever divide people by background or belief. Hatred of Jews must always be confronted. This moment is about personal accountability. The choice is yours, Mr Farage."