Courage to Care (also known as B'nai B'rith Courage to Care) is an organization based in Australia founded by the Jewish service organization
B'nai B'rith
B'nai B'rith International (, from he, בְּנֵי בְּרִית, translit=b'né brit, lit=Children of the Covenant) is a Jewish service organization. B'nai B'rith states that it is committed to the security and continuity of the Jewish peopl ...
. The group's mission is to prevent discrimination and bullying through educational programs.
The organisation's programme is student-centred, focused exclusively on the stories of
people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, ...
. The programme's aim is to convey community tolerance and living in harmony.
Courage to Care has three divisions, one based in Sydney, New South Wales (covering the states of New South Wales and Queensland), one in Melbourne, Victoria, and one based in Perth, Western Australia.
Activities
Courage to Care operates a traveling exhibition featuring stories of Holocaust survivors and those who rescued them.
Other activities include programs and workshops for schools and workplaces.
In 2016, the program was delivered for new recruits at the Queensland Police Service.
See also
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Courage to Care Award
Since April 23, 1987, the Anti-Defamation League has given award the Courage to Care Award to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. In 2011, the award was renamed the Jan Karski Courage to Care Award in honor of one of its 1988 recipients, ...
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The Courage to Care (film)
''The Courage to Care'' is a 1985 American short documentary film directed by Robert H. Gardner and produced by Carol Rittner about non-Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Sho ...
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Ernie Friedlander
Ernie Friedlander (born 1935) is a Holocaust survivor, and is a notable Australian-Jewish activist working in the area of anti-racism and prejudice prevention, and runs the Moving Forward Together Association. Friedlander is also closely associa ...
- anti-racism activist associated with B'nai B'rith and Courage to Care
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Moving Forward Together
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Alan Gold (author) - former Vice-President of Courage to Care
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Anti-Defamation Commission
The Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) is a Jewish-Australian community organisation that was originally founded by B'nai B'rith to combat antisemitism in Australia (originally as the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission).Abramovitch, D. (2015). ...
References
External links
Courage to Care NSW / QLD websiteCourage to Care Victoria websiteCourage to Care Perth website
Educational organisations based in Australia
Jewish organisations based in Australia
The Holocaust
Organisations based in Sydney
Organisations based in Melbourne
Organisations based in Perth, Western Australia
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