Pan Junshun
Pan Junshun (traditional Chinese: 潘均順; simplified Chinese: 潘均顺; pinyin: Pān Jūnshùn; 1889 – 1974), was the first Chinese national to be awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations for hiding and sheltering a Ukrainian Jewish girl during the occupation of part of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Life
[edit]Pan Jun Shun moved to Russia in 1916 looking for work. He settled in Moscow where he found work as a laborer.[citation needed] As an enthusiastic communist, he decided to stay in the USSR.[1] He married and had two sons while living in Moscow, after which he moved to Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1936. His wife died before the outbreak of World War II.[2]
His two sons were drafted into the Red Army at the beginning of the war; they never returned home and were presumed to have been killed during the war.[2]
He survived the war and continued to live there until his death in 1974.
Righteous among the Nations
[edit]Pan Jun Shun provided shelter and hiding for Ludmilla Genrichovna, a Ukrainian Jewish girl who had escaped from a detention area set up by the occupying German Army.[3] She escaped through the efforts of her mother who realized that her children were likely to be killed as they were being transferred to another town.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Gilbert, Martin. The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. ISBN 0-8050-6260-2, ISBN 978-0-8050-6260-1. New York: Henry Holt, 2003. P. 20.
- ^ a b "Jun Shun Pan". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ "Teaching the Chinese About the Holocaust", Rafael Medoff, Jewish Ledger, 5 November 2010
- ^ Ha, Tu Thanh. "Holocaust memorial honours individuals from all countries who risked their lives". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 31 December 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2018.