Sylva Zalmanson is a Jewish Prisoner of Zion, a group of people who were imprisoned for their Zionist activities in the Communist bloc countries.
Sylva Zalmanson (Russian:  , Hebrew:  ; born Siberia, 1944) is a Soviet-born Jewish Prisoner of Zion, human rights activist, artist and engineer who settled in Israel in 1974. Most of the prisoners of Zion were imprisoned for their activities in the Communist bloc countries and in the former Soviet Union (and were also known for being refuseniks). 
