Shoah Survivors Demand Nigel Farage to Apologise Over Claimed Antisemitic Remarks.

A group of Shoah survivors has publicly demanded that Nigel Farage be honest and issue an apology for alleged antisemitic taunts he is said to have made toward Jewish schoolmates during his time at school.

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

"As Shoah survivors, we grasp the deadly peril of hateful words – because we have seen where such words inevitably end," declared the survivors in a open letter.

"It is crucial to understand: lauding Hitler, jeering at gas chambers, or shouting racist insults is not teasing. Not in a playground. Not anywhere."

An Unequivocal Demand

The correspondence poses blunt questions to the political figure: "Did you say ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ accompanied by mimicking gas chambers? Did you expose your peers to antisemitic abuse?"

The Signatories

The group of eleven survivors includes individuals with deeply traumatic personal stories from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who was bereaved of 27 members of her immediate and extended family.
• Simon Winston, who was imprisoned in a ghetto before escaping in 1942 and living through the rest of the war concealed.
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was freed.

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

Mounting Testimony

This intervention follows the rejection of similar testimony by more than several dozen former pupils and teachers as "made-up twaddle" by a deputy leader.

Since the initial report, more contemporaries have come forward. Twenty-eight former pupils and teachers now claim they observed racist or antisemitic behaviour by him.

One notable allegation comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish award-winning director, who said that a teenage Farage would come near him and repeat the phrases "Hitler was right" and "gas them", at times including a long hiss to simulate the sound of gas chambers.

A Broader Pattern

Additional alumni from ethnic minorities have likewise come forward with stories of direct abuse.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was called a "racial slur" and has dismissed the idea that such actions were devoid of malice.
• Another individual with Asian roots 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 asks a concluding dilemma to Farage: "By denying saying those words, do you mean that 20 former classmates and teachers are lying? Should the allegations be true, now is the opportunity to take responsibility and apologise."

"People who seek to govern our country should not ever create division by race or religion. Anti-Jewish bigotry must never become acceptable. This moment is about moral responsibility. The choice is yours, Mr Farage."