Holocaust Victims Demand Nigel Farage to Make Amends Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Comments.

A collective of Holocaust survivors has insisted that Nigel Farage tell the truth and issue an apology for alleged antisemitic comments he reportedly directed toward Jewish students during his youth.

The political party leader has said he never insulted anyone with malicious intent, proposing it may have been mere "playground banter".

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

"It is crucial to understand: praising Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or hurling racist abuse is not simple joking. Not on a schoolyard. Not under any circumstances."

A Direct Question

The correspondence asks straightforward questions to the public figure: "Are the claims accurate that you stated ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them,’ while mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your classmates to anti-Jewish taunts?"

The Signatories

The collective of eleven survivors features individuals with devastating personal histories from the Nazi genocide.

• Hedi Argent, who lost 27 members of her family.
• Simon Winston, who was held in 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 transferred 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.

Increasing Allegations

This action follows the rejection of similar accounts by more than two dozen or more alumni and teachers as "made-up twaddle" by a senior party figure.

After the story broke, more contemporaries have spoken out. 28 ex-students and educators now claim they observed racist or antisemitic behaviour by him.

One well-known account comes from Peter Ettedgui, a Jewish-born award-winning director, who recalls that a teenage Farage would approach him and say the phrases "Hitler had the correct idea" and "send them to the gas chambers", sometimes making a prolonged hissing sound to mimic the sound of gas chambers.

Further Allegations

Additional alumni from diverse backgrounds have also come forward with stories of personal harassment.

• Cyrus Oshidar claimed he was called a "Paki" and has dismissed the idea that such actions were not meant to hurt.
• Another individual with Asian roots described him as an "avowed bigot" who would use the phrase "Enoch Powell was right" as a form of "ethnic harassment".

The Survivors' Final Appeal

The survivors' letter asks a concluding challenge to Farage: "If you deny saying those words, is your position that 20 former classmates and teachers are fabricating their stories? If the words were spoken, now is the opportunity to take responsibility and say sorry."

"Individuals who hope to lead our country should never sow discord by background or belief. Hatred of Jews must never be normalised. This moment is about moral responsibility. The choice is yours, Mr Farage."