Jilava Prison information

Jilava Prison (Romanian: Penitenciarul București–Jilava) is a prison located in Jilava, a village south of Bucharest, Romania. The prison began as Fort...

"humid place". In this commune there is an operating prison and also the Fort 13 Jilava. Jilava was the location of a fort built by King Carol I of Romania...

The Jilava massacre took place during the night of November 26, 1940, at Jilava Prison, near Bucharest, Romania. Sixty-four political detainees were killed...

politicians like Nicolae Iorga ended with Codreanu's incarceration at Jilava Prison and eventual assassination at the hands of the Gendarmerie. He was succeeded...

the jail time. He was liberated in June 2023, after serving time at Jilava Prison. As a mayor, Piedone took strong social welfare measures, making him...

the Danube–Black Sea Canal, Văcărești, Malmaison, Cluj and ultimately Jilava, where he spent three years in solitary confinement. This confinement was...

the Jilava Prison via railroad. Days or weeks could pass before a suitable train was available. From Jilava, they were assigned to either prisons or labor...

discussed below, Iron Guard members were responsible for the Jilava Massacre at the eponymous prison on the night of November 26–27, 1940, when 64 political...

his quarters. He was returned to Bucharest in spring 1946 and held in Jilava Prison. He was subsequently interrogated by prosecutor Avram Bunaciu, to whom...

Some prisons in Romania formerly housed political prisoners, both during successive dictatorships of 1938–1944 and during the subsequent Communist regime...

months imprisonment. Transferred from the Timișoara penitentiary to the Jilava Prison near Bucharest, he arrived at the Oradea penitentiary in December, and...

arrested by the communist authorities on 19 April 1948 and incarcerated at Jilava Prison. After a trial, he was sentenced to hard labor for life for high treason...

co-leader of the state. Following the massacre of political prisoners at Jilava Prison by Legionnaires on 26 November 1940, Mironovici was appointed successor...

Antonescu, Constantin Z. Vasiliu [ro] and Gheorghe Alexianu, near the fort of Jilava. His resting place is unknown. Latin Axis (World War II) Footage of Antonescu's...

threatened, beaten, tortured and processed. Eventually, he was imprisoned at Jilava Prison on 16 May, and he died in 1954 due to the treatment to which he was...

ten years of hard labour. He was imprisoned variously at Jilava, Văcărești, and Aiud prisons before being released early in 1962. Under the recommendation...

Sima government, imprisoned at Jilava Prison, and subsequently assassinated by members of the Iron Guard in the 1940 Jilava massacre. Ispas, Constantin (March...

trial, Solomon was held from 1947 to 1955 as a political prisoner in prisons at Jilava, Pitești, Aiud, Ocnele Mari and, finally, Sighet, where he was brought...

tried and convicted for war crimes, and was executed on June 1, 1946 at Jilava Prison. The charges brought against Alexianu and the sentences proposed for...

the communist regime, including Sighet Prison, Gherla Prison, Jilava Prison, Râmnicu Sărat Prison, Pitești Prison, and the Danube–Black Sea Canal (where...

forced labor, in Gulag-like prisons. He would serve his penalty at Jilava, Gherla, Aiud, and other prisons. While in prison, Steinhardt converted to Orthodox...

dignitaries or officials were executed by the Iron Guard in Jilava Prison while awaiting trial (see Jilava Massacre). Later that day, historian and former prime...