Shoah Victims Call On Nigel Farage to Make Amends Over Claimed Anti-Jewish Statements.

A coalition of Shoah survivors has called for that Nigel Farage admit the facts and apologise for alleged anti-Jewish abuse attributed to him toward Jewish students during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has said he never insulted anyone with the aim to hurt, framing it may have been mere "childish teasing".

"As Holocaust survivors, we grasp the profound danger of hateful words – for we have experienced firsthand where such words inevitably end," wrote the survivors in a missive.

"It is crucial to understand: lauding Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not simple joking. Not among children. Not ever."

A Pointed Inquiry

The document asks direct questions to the political figure: "Is it true you said ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ and mimicked gas chambers? Did you subject your fellow pupils to antisemitic abuse?"

The Survivors

The collective of eleven survivors includes individuals with devastating personal experiences from the Holocaust.

• Hedi Argent, who saw the murder of 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 in hiding.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and later incarcerated at Bergen-Belsen, where she was rescued.

Other signatories include Janine Webber, Edith Jayne, Helen Aronson, Ruth Barnett, John Fieldsend, Susan Pollack, Hanneke Dye and Agnes Kaposi.

Growing Accounts

This action follows the rejection of similar allegations by more than two dozen ex-schoolmates and teachers as "complete fiction" by a senior party figure.

After the story broke, further individuals from that era have spoken out. 28 ex-students and educators now assert they saw prejudiced actions by him.

One well-known account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born Bafta and Emmy-winning director, who said that a teenage Farage would sidle up to him and say the phrases "Hitler was right" and "send them to the gas chambers", on occasion including a prolonged hissing sound to imitate the sound of gas chambers.

Additional Claims

More individuals from ethnic minorities have likewise spoken publicly with accounts of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was referred to as a "Paki" and has labelled as rubbish the notion that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another pupil of Asian descent portrayed him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell had a point" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

A Concluding Demand

The final appeal puts forth an ultimate dilemma to Farage: "By denying saying those words, is your position that scores of witnesses are lying? If the words were spoken, now is the moment to acknowledge you were wrong and make amends."

"Individuals who aspire to lead our country should never divide people by ethnicity or faith. Hatred of Jews must never be normalised. This moment is about moral responsibility. The path forward is your own, Mr Farage."