Pan Jun Shun

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Pan Jun Shun ( Chinese  潘 均 順  /  潘 均 顺 , Pinyin Pān Jūnshùn ; * 1889 ; † 1974 ), was the first Chinese citizen to be awarded the title of “ Righteous Among the Nations ”. During the Second World War he hid and protected a Ukrainian Jewish girl.

In 1916, Pan Jun Shun moved to Russia to look for work. He stayed in Moscow and found work as an unskilled worker. Due to the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the establishment of the Soviet Union , he was unable to return to China . He married in Moscow and had two sons. In 1936 he moved to Kharkov in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic . His wife died before the Second World War. His two sons were drafted into the Red Army and had to fight in World War II, from which they never returned.

Pan Jun Shun survived the war and continued to live in Ukraine until his death in 1974.

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SURNAME Pan, Jun Shun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese, who was given the title of "Righteous Among the Nations"
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
DATE OF DEATH 1974