Memorial for the Victims of the Gestapo Vienna

On 26 May 2011, the memorial site for the victims of the Gestapo Vienna, which had existed since 1968, was reopened in the Leopold-Figl-Hof at Salztorgasse 6 in the first district. The Leopold-Figl-Hof is located at the former site of the hotel Métropole, which was seized by the NS regime in March 1938 and converted into the Gestapo headquarters. Thousands of people, many of them actively involved in the resistance, were interrogated, tortured, and subsequently deported to concentration camps here.

The original "Memorial Space for the Victims of the Austrian Freedom Struggle" had been set up by the victim associations. The renovation and thematic expansion in 2011 was carried out by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW). The new exhibition on contemporary history informs not only about the victims among the political opponents of Nazism, but also about other victim groups of the Gestapo, as well as about the Gestapo's persecution apparatus, its employees, and their working methods.