Anita Halpin
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Anita E. Halpin (born c1944) is chair of the Communist Party of Britain, honorary treasurer for the National Union of Journalists and a member of the Trade Union Congress General Council.
She stood for election to the Greater London Assembly.[1]
In 2006 she inherited a painting, as the sole surviving heir to a Jewish German shoe factory owner, under contentious Nazi restitution laws. "Berlin Street Scene" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which had hung in Berlin's Brücke Museum[2] was sold at Christies auction house in New York for £20.5million on 8 November 2006.[3]
According to 'Pandora' in The Independent newspaper of 26/5/2008 - [4] - she has donated the princely sum of £9,310 to her party.
[edit] References
- ^ Candidates for the Greater London Assembly. Retrieved on 2006-11-10.
- ^ Jewish Heirs Want Their Art Back. SPIEGEL Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-11-10.
- ^ Communist Party chair nets £20m in painting sale. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2006-11-10.
- ^ {{cite web | title=£20m 'Stalin's granny' gives pittance to her party url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/pandora/pandora-cherie-is-brought-to-book-834311.html
