Mel Gibson is developing a television mini-series about the Holocaust. Gibson, accused by some Jews of dabbling in anti-Semitic stereotypes with his “Passion of the Christ” — and whose father has denied that the Holocaust occurred — is planning the ABC series with his production company, The New York Times reported. The show is to be based on the memoir of Flory Van Beek, a Dutch Jew who survived the Nazis by hiding with non-Jewish neighbors. The Times said the project is in a nascent phase and will not necessarily be completed. Gibson is not slated to act in the series.
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