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An Australian immigrant couple, Cornelis & Aaltje van Meurs, originally from Holland, were posthumously honoured with the Yad Vashems Righteous Amongst the Nations award for having rescued a Jewish child in 1942 and other heroic deeds in Holland during the Holocaust, at a ceremony at the Victorian Parliament, in the presence of their sons, friends, parliamentarians and community representatives. Alpha Cheng, the son of the murdered victim of the Sydney terrorist attack Curtis Cheng, spoke at the opening of the Courage to Care travelling Holocaust exhibition, at its opening at the Victorian Parliament and described the valuable lessons he learnt at the Holocaust Studies program, as a history teacher, in Jerusalems Yad Vashem, which he completed thanks to the Gandel Holocaust Scholarship for Australian Educators. Four philanthropic Jewish families in Sydney have pledged $10m for the Sydney Jewish and Holocaust Museums over the next decade, to help ensure the museums independence and future. The In Pursuit of Beersheba commemorative ride, with some 100 horse riders dressed in the uniforms of the heroic ANZAC light horsemen, who defeated the Ottoman forces at Beersheba, staged a re-enactment of the charge of the 31st October 1917, in remote Central Western QLD in front of hundreds of locals and ahead of the 100th commemorative ceremony, which will take place at Beersheba in Israel at the end of this month, in the presence of Australian and Israeli leaders and representatives.