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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...
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    Jilava Prison (Romanian: Penitenciarul București–Jilava) is a prison located in Jilava, a village south of Bucharest, Romania. The prison began as Fort...
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    The Jilava massacre took place during the night of November 26, 1940, at Jilava Prison, near Bucharest, Romania. Sixty-four political detainees were killed...
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  • The only postwar execution of Romanian war criminals, Jilava, 1 June 1946....
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    Nicolae Ceaușescu (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    order", spending the time during the war in prisons and internment camps: Jilava (1940), Caransebeș (1942), Văcărești (1943), and Târgu Jiu (1943). Ceaușescu...
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  • Gherla Prison 1785 Gherla Maximum security prison Jilava Prison Converted from a fort in 1907 Jilava commune, Ilfov County The prison was created from...
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  • or officials were executed by the Iron Guard in the Jilava prison while awaiting trial (see Jilava Massacre). Later that day, historian and former prime...
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    units; civilians are forbidden entry. The best-known fort is number 13, at Jilava—a military prison from 1907, a feared destination for political prisoners...
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    State For My Legionaries Neo-Legionarism Events Moța–Marin funerals (1937) Jilava massacre (1940) Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom (1941) v t...
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    Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    (November–December 1922). Back in Romania, Pătrășcanu was arrested and imprisoned at Jilava in 1924 (the year when the party was outlawed); he went on hunger strike...
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  • 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...
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    the segment of 16.3 km between the DN6 road and the CFR Line 902 (near Jilava), called lot 2, was signed in March 2019 and is due to be finished in 2022...
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    Vladimir Ghika (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    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...
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    Eugen Țurcanu (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    reduced scale until that December. On 19 December he was transferred to Jilava Prison. Țurcanu and his group of torturers were tried in September–November...
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    Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    moderate politicians like Nicolae Iorga ended with Codreanu's incarceration at Jilava Prison and eventual assassination at the hands of the Gendarmerie. He was...
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    former dignitaries or officials were executed by the Iron Guard in the Jilava Massacre. The already harsh anti-Semitic legislation was expanded, included...
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    November 1940 more than 60 former dignitaries or officials were executed in Jilava prison while awaiting trial. The following day, historian and former prime...
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    Supreme Tribunal upheld the sentence. On 23 October 1971, Rîmaru was taken to Jilava Prison in a van. He had to be dragged to the place of execution from the...
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  • three cases discussed below, Iron Guard members were responsible for the Jilava Massacre at the eponymous prison on the night of November 26–27, 1940, when...
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    and sixteen accomplices were executed by firing squad on 17 December at Jilava Prison. Securitate officials who had overseen the experiment were tried...
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    Ion Negulescu (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    Ion Negulescu (b. April 1, 1887, Turnu Măgurele – April 1, 1949, Jilava Prison) was a Romanian general, who served as Minister of War in the government...
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    Richard Wurmbrand (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    the Danube–Black Sea Canal, Văcărești, Malmaison, Cluj and ultimately Jilava, where he spent three years in solitary confinement. This confinement was...
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    member of the Iron Guard and had been imprisoned with other Legionnaires at Jilava Prison in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister I.G. Duca...
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    Mihai Antonescu (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    Antonescu, Constantin Z. Vasiliu [ro] and Gheorghe Alexianu, near the fort of Jilava. His resting place is unknown. Latin Axis (World War II) Pena, Cătălin (June...
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    Ion Antonescu (category Inmates of Jilava Prison)
    against political figures previously associated with Carol, carrying out the Jilava Massacre, the assassinations of Nicolae Iorga and Virgil Madgearu, and several...
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    State For My Legionaries Neo-Legionarism Events Moța–Marin funerals (1937) Jilava massacre (1940) Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom (1941) v t...
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    State For My Legionaries Neo-Legionarism Events Moța–Marin funerals (1937) Jilava massacre (1940) Legionnaires' rebellion and Bucharest pogrom (1941) v t...
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    Grădiștea, Sitaru Gruiu Gruiu, Lipia, Siliștea Snagovului, Șanțu-Florești Jilava Jilava Moara Vlăsiei Căciulați, Moara Vlăsiei Mogoșoaia Mogoșoaia Nuci Balta...
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  • It is not until 1941 that his current name is adopted. November 26–27 – Jilava Massacre: In Romania, coup leader General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests...
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    Execution of Ion Antonescu, Mihai Antonescu, Gheorghe Alexianu, and Constantin Vasiliu [ro] at Jilava Prison, June 1, 1946...
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