Gibson plans TV mini-series on Holocaust survivors

Mel Gibson stirred passions with his blockbuster Passion of the Christ and might well again with his latest project – a non-fiction TV movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.

Gibson’s Con Artist Productions is developing Flory, based on the true-life love story of a Dutch Jew named Flory Van Beek and her non-Jewish boyfriend who sheltered her from the Nazis.

Gibson’s involvement in the project has already raised some eyebrows because critics claimed Passion of the Christ contained anti-Semitic elements, a charge Gibson has denied.

Gibson’s father also is on the record denying that the Holocaust took place. “For him to be associated with this movie is cause for concern,” said Rafael Medoff, director of the David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, and the author of an annual study of Holocaust denial.

“He needs to come clean that he repudiates Holocaust denial, and that he understands the Holocaust was not just another atrocity that occurred in the Second World War along with other atrocities.”