Shoah Survivors Urge Nigel Farage to Make Amends Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Remarks.

A collective of Shoah survivors has called for that Nigel Farage admit the facts and apologise for reported anti-Jewish abuse he reportedly directed toward Jewish students during his time at school.

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

"As Shoah survivors, we grasp the deadly peril of bigoted language – for we have seen where such words inevitably end," wrote the survivors in a letter.

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

A Pointed Inquiry

The correspondence puts forth blunt questions to the party leader: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ while mimicking gas chambers? Did you target your peers to antisemitic abuse?"

Those Who Signed

The group of 11 survivors features individuals with deeply traumatic personal experiences from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was confined to a ghetto before fleeing in 1942 and living through the rest of the war concealed.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later incarcerated at 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.

Mounting Testimony

This public letter is a response to the rejection of related accounts by more than two dozen or more former pupils and teachers as "complete fiction" by a high-ranking official.

Following the publication, more contemporaries have come forward. 28 people connected to the school now claim they saw prejudiced actions by him.

One prominent testimony comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish award-winning director, who said that a teenage Farage would approach him and utter the phrases "Hitler was correct" and "gas them", on occasion adding a hiss to imitate the sound of the gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Additional alumni from minority ethnic backgrounds have likewise shared experiences with allegations of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar stated he was called a "Paki" and has dismissed the notion that such actions were without intent.
• Another pupil of Asian descent characterised him as an "open racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell had a point" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal puts forth an ultimate question to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, do you mean that scores of witnesses are lying? If you did say them, now is the opportunity to take responsibility and say sorry."

"People who aspire to lead our country should under no circumstances divide people by ethnicity or faith. Antisemitic hatred must always be confronted. This moment is about personal accountability. The choice is your own, Mr Farage."