Shoah Memorial Trail in Luxembourg City

Where? Luxemburg

Let us not forget the Shoah victims!

© Photothèque VDL
Tour type
by foot
Target group
Individuals

The two-hour Shoah Memorial Trail in Luxembourg City offers an insight into the wiping out of Jewish life in Luxembourg by Nazi Germany.

The non-profit association MemoShoah Luxembourg initiated this memorial trail so that the fate of the approximately 4000 Jews who lived here on the day of the German invasion will be remembered. The path leads past well-known and lesser-known places that played a key role in Luxembourg with regard to the Shoah.

The trail starts at the main railway station in Luxembourg City, where a total of seven deportation trains deported 658 Jews to various ghettos and extermination camps from 1941 onwards, and ends at the Kaddish Monument, which commemorates the fate of the Jews living here who fell victim to the anti-Semitic persecution and extermination policies of the Nazi occupying power. Around 1200 of the original 4000 Jewish residents of Luxembourg did not survive the Shoah; about 130 lost their lives in the resistance struggle against Nazi Germany in France and Belgium. Despite this, it was not until 2016 that Jews were recognised as a group of Luxembourgish victims of the Nazi regime, alongside the two well-established groups: the victims of forced recruitment in the German armed forces and the victims of the anti-Nazi resistance struggle. 

Attractions nearby

Shoah Memorial Trail in Luxembourg City

  • © Visit Luxembourg
    Central Railway Station
    In 1859 the first railway station of the city started to operate; for military reasons timber was the basic construction material.
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  • © Paul Dostert
    Villa Pauly
    From August 1940 on, the Gestapo had installed their headquarters on these premises.
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Contact

Address: Luxembourg City Tourist Office
30, place Guillaume II
L-1648 Luxembourg City
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