Pan Junshun
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Use dmy dates Pan Junshun (Template:Zh; 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. Script error: No such module "Sidebar".
Life
Pan Jun Shun born in Heilongjiang province, China. ( source: Xinmin metropolis daily August 20, 2020 ), Mr Pan moved to Russia in 1916 looking for work. He settled in Moscow where he found work as a laborer.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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
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
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- ↑ Gilbert, Martin. The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN. New York: Henry Holt, 2003. P. 20.
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- ↑ "Teaching the Chinese About the Holocaust", Rafael Medoff, Jewish Ledger, 5 November 2010
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