Holocaust Victims Urge Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Remarks.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has called for that Nigel Farage tell the truth and express remorse for alleged anti-Jewish comments he is said to have made toward Jewish pupils during his time at school.

The Reform UK leader has claimed he never insulted anyone with malicious intent, proposing it may have been mere "schoolyard talk".

"Being Shoah survivors, we understand the deadly peril of words of hatred – for we have seen where such words ultimately lead," declared the survivors in a open letter.

"It is crucial to understand: lauding Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or directing racial slurs is not simple joking. Not among children. Not under any circumstances."

A Pointed Inquiry

The correspondence puts forth direct questions to the political figure: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you expose your fellow pupils to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Signatories

The collective of eleven survivors features individuals with deeply traumatic 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 breaking out in 1942 and living through the rest of the war in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at 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 characterisation of related allegations by more than several dozen alumni and teachers as "fabricated nonsense" by a senior party figure.

Since the initial report, additional former pupils have spoken out. Nearly thirty people connected to the school now state they witnessed bigoted conduct by him.

One prominent testimony comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who recalls that a teenage Farage would sidle up to him and say the phrases "Hitler was right" and "gas them", at times including a hiss to imitate the sound of gas chambers.

Additional Claims

More individuals from ethnic minorities have also shared experiences with stories of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar said he was called a "Paki" and has dismissed the notion that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another pupil of Asian descent described him as an "blatant racist" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "racial bullying".

The Ultimate Question

The final appeal poses a final question to Farage: "By denying saying those words, is your position that scores of witnesses are not telling the truth? Should the allegations be true, now is the time to acknowledge you were wrong and say sorry."

"People who aspire to lead our country should under no circumstances divide people by race or religion. Hatred of Jews must always be confronted. This moment is about personal accountability. The choice is your own, Mr Farage."