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2 unusual facts about Jilava


Duško Novaković

Exceptional voice, Ksenija Cicvarić, was and still is known as a top performer Montenegrin, Serbian and Muslim melodies, harassed and persecuted during the period when the poet's father, after the Cominform Resolution in prison as a political prisoner in a Stalinist prison camp in Jilava, Romania.

Fortifications of Bucharest

The best-known fort is number 13, at Jilava—a military prison from 1907, a feared destination for political prisoners and place of execution during the Communist era, and now still a penitentiary.


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Richard Wurmbrand

Wurmbrand, who passed through the penal facilities of Craiova, Gherla, the Danube – Black Sea Canal, Văcăreşti, Malmaison, Cluj, and ultimately Jilava, spent three years in solitary confinement.


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