Built in 1921, Montluc’s prison was not really used until the beginning of the Second World War. Military prison of the Vichy regime from 1940 to 1943, it was then requisitioned by the Nazi occupier from January 1943\\. As a military prison in the Wehrmacht, Montluc quickly came under the control of the Gestapo and Klaus Barbie. It was then in Lyon and for the whole region, the main gateway to deportation and executions. Home to nearly 10,000 men, women and children interned during the German occupation, including the children of Izieu, Jean Moulin and Marc Bloch, Montluc Prison is an emblematic site of German and French repression policies in the Lyon region. It became a civil prison in 1947, and still operates with the military court in Lyon and welcomes its various convicts, especially during the Algerian War of Independence. The prison closed as a women’s detention centre in 2009 and in 2010 became a national memory centre open to the public. Only prison in France preserved in its e
Access
Métro D station Sans Souci - Tramway T4 arrêt Manufacture-Montluc - Bus C7, C25 et 69 arrêts Manufacture-Montluc
Website
https://www.memorial-montluc.fr/
Phone
04 78 53 60 41
Other
https://www.facebook.com/MemorialNationalPrisonMontluc

Address
4 rue Jeanne Hachette, 69003 Lyon, Métropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France