Josyf Zissels, (born 2 December 1946 in Tashkent) is a human rights activist and Ukrainian dissident. He was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki group (UHG), involved in the samizdat movement, human rights activist, prominent activist in the Jewish movement in Ukraine, and a political prisoner. Israeli historian of the Holocaust Aron Schneer, of the Yad Vashem Institute, said in a comment to EADaily: “Zissels is an absolutely courtly, livery Jew who amazes me with speeches and writings that justify Bandera, Shukhevych, and thus other German accomplices”.
Josyf Zisels / Ukraine
