© Paul Dostert
Villa Pauly
Where? 57, Boulevard de la Pétrusse, L-2320 Luxembourg
From August 1940 on, the Gestapo had installed their headquarters on these premises.
All people who showed their opposition/resistance towards the German policy of annexation of Luxembourg to the German Reich were arrested and brought to this building to be interrogated and sometimes tortured before being sent to prisons or concentration camps.The villa’s basement had been transformed into prisonners’ cells where numerous members of Resistance movements were interrogated and tortured.
Two plaques on the outside commemorate the victims of the Resistance and the 1300 Jews whose deportation was organised here.
It now houses the Luxembourg Resistance Foundation (FONARES), the Foundation for the Memory of the victims of the Shoah and the “Comité pour la mémoire de la deuxième guerre mondiale”.
Opening hours
The building is not accessible for the public.
