Winnipeggers will hold a vigil in solidarity with victims of hate crimes in the city and across the country.
The vigil is set to start at 3 p.m. at Wolseley School.
Organizers said it’s in response to recent anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate crimes in the neighbourhood, in Quebec City and across the U.S.
On New Year’s Eve, a Jewish family in Wolseley came home to find a rock with an anti-Semitic message written on it left near their front steps.
B’nai Brith said the rock was inside a red gift bag tied with a red ribbon, and the words “Die Jew Bitch” written in red paint on one side, and a swastika the word "Einsatzgruppen" was painted on the other.
The Einsatzgruppen were mobile Nazi death squads and killed Jews – and others – during the Holocaust.
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After the incident, neighbours put up posters on their front doors with a Star of David inside a heart.
Earlier this week, a woman told CTV News she saw a swastika drawn in the snow near Meadowood Drive and Ashworth Street.
A 27-year-old man faces first-degree murder charges for a shooting at a Quebec City mosque on Jan. 29 that killed six men and wounded 19 others.
One of the organizers of the vigil in Winnipeg said these recent incidents sparked a conversation amongst residents.
“We felt we could not just let these violent incidents go by without standing together as a community,” she said in a news release.
