World Report

PRAGUE (JTA) -- Czech police confiscated 300 copies of "Mein Kampf" as it continued its crackdown on the new publication of Hitler's manifesto.

Officials said they would soon confiscate other unsold copies of the Czech translation of the book, which was published in March without disclaimers or commentaries.

Earlier, a publisher who issued "Mein Kampf" without explanatory notes was charged by police with promoting Nazism.

Michal Zitko, of the publishing house Otakar II, faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. He said he wanted Czechs to be aware of an important historical document.

Vandals tag swastikas on S. African homes

JOHANNESBURG (JTA) -- Twelve houses in a predominantly Jewish suburb of South Africa's capital were spray-painted with swastikas and other Nazi symbols.

The homes of non-Jewish residents in the area were also targeted. While the incident was reported to the police, local Jewish leaders were not alarmed.

Russell Gaddin, national chairman of the South Africa Jewish Board of Deputies, believes the graffiti was the work of youthful pranksters.

Queen will present U.K. Shoah memorial

LONDON (JTA) -- Britain's first permanent memorial to the Holocaust is scheduled to open Tuesday, when it will be inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II.

The exhibit, which includes Holocaust-era artifacts as well as a deportation rail car and a model of a death camp, is housed in a $25.5 million extension of London's Imperial War Museum.