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Jilava is a commune in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, near Bucharest. It is composed of a single village, Jilava. The name derives from a Romanian word of Slavic origin ( Bulgarian жилав žilav (tough), which passed into Romanian as jilav) meaning "humid place". In this commune there is an operating prison and also the Fort 13 Jilava.
The Jilava massacre[1] took place during the night of November 26, 1940, at Jilava Prison, near Bucharest, Romania. Sixty-four political detainees were killed by the Iron Guard (Legion), with further high-profile assassinations in the immediate aftermath.
Jilava (în trecut, Jilava-Mierlari) este o comună în județul Ilfov, Muntenia, România, formată numai din satul de reședință cu același nume.
Jilava Prison (Romanian: Penitenciarul București–Jilava) is a prison located in Jilava, a village south of Bucharest, Romania. History. The prison began as Fort 13, part of the fortifications of Bucharest built in the 1870s and 1880s.
Jilava penitentiary centre, to the south of Bucharest, is one of the largest prisons in Romania and one of the rare prisons of which the Romanian prison system can be proud.
Apr 11, 2024 · Jilava is one of 44 prisons and 72 forced labour camps set up under Romania’s communist regime (1945-1989) to jail more than 150,000 political prisoners, according to the Institute for the...
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Apr 14, 2024 · Romania’s Jilava prison is ‘a place where you can show the truth about the way prisoners were tortured’, says a former inmate now 80 years old. She heads a group pushing for ex-prisons to...
