HOLOCAUST survivors called on Nigel Farage today to apologise over allegations of racism and anti-semitism during his school days.

The Reform UK leader has faced claims about his behaviour while he was a pupil at Dulwich College, a top private school in south London.

Mr Farage denied at a press conference on Thursday that he ever made racist remarks in a “malicious or nasty way.”

He has previously said of the claims that what could have been considered “banter in a playground” could be interpreted in “the modern light of day in some sort of way.”

The 11 signatories, some of whom have survived death camps, write that they “understand the danger of hateful words.”

They called on the Clacton MP to admit whether he said them or if he is accusing those who say he did of lying.

“Let us be clear: praising Hitler, mocking gas chambers, or hurling racist abuse is not banter,” the letter said.

“Not in a playground. Not anywhere.”

They add that “honesty, reflection and commitment to truth” is the responsible response when it comes to allegations about “invoking Nazi attitudes” towards Jewish children.

“So we ask you: Did you say ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas them’, mimicking gas chambers? Did you subject your classmates to antisemitic abuse?

“If you deny saying those words, are you saying that 20 former classmates and teachers are lying?

“If you did say them, now is the time to acknowledge you were wrong, and apologise.”

The Holocaust survivors who signed the letter include Hedi Argent, who fled Austria and lost 27 members of her family, and Simon Winston, who was held in a ghetto in the German-occupied Soviet Union.