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Nearly 3,800 hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have been documented since the pandemic was declared in March 2020. (Photo/iStock)
Jonathan Wang has spent all year helping students emotionally grapple with the racist incidents targeting Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the pandemic. The recent killing of eight people, including six Asian women, outside Atlanta only heightened the stress many Asian Americans feel, Wang said, including those at USC.
The deaths are just the latest and most violent examples of what many have experienced all year the feeling that COVID-19 has exacerbated their feelings of being unwelcomed, different and outsiders, added Wang, director of Asian Pacific American Student Services, or APASS, at USC.
April 16, 2021
Nearly 3,800 hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have been documented since the pandemic was declared in March 2020. (Photo/iStock)
Jonathan Wang has spent all year helping students emotionally grapple with the racist incidents targeting Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the pandemic. The recent killing of eight people, including six Asian women, outside Atlanta only heightened the stress many Asian Americans feel, Wang said, including those at USC.
The deaths are just the latest and most violent examples of what many have experienced all year the feeling that COVID-19 has exacerbated their feelings of being unwelcomed, different and outsiders, added Wang, director of Asian Pacific American Student Services, or APASS, at USC.
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Montrealer Steven Stenge died of COVID-19 on Jan. 28; nine days later the virus took his wife, Margrit Rosenberg Stenge. They had been married for 71 years.
Each had survived the Holocaust â the systematic extermination of six million European Jews, two out of every three, by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War Two.
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They met after the war, at a Jewish singles dance in Oslo, Norway in 1948 and married the following December. In August of 1951 they immigrated to Canada and settled in Montreal, where they made a good life and raised two children: A son, Marvin, lives in Israel with his family; a daughter, Helen, lives in Toronto with her family.