Eggenfelden DP camp was established in late 1945. The camp's inhabitants lived in requisitioned houses located in the town of Eggenfelden, fifty-five kilometres southwest of Passau in Bavaria in the American zone of Germany. The camp was overcrowded with one or two families in a room, which often at the same time served as a kitchen. One house was often shared by up to fifty people. In mid 1947 the camp had  727 inhabitants, three quarters of whom were between the ages of seventeen and forty-five.  It maintained a kindergarten, a primary school catering for fifty children and evening classes in English and Hebrew.

ORT school in the camp was attended by 105 students- both teenagers and adults. The courses  offered  included electrical engineering, machine knitting, auto mechanics, dressmaking.  Classes were initially taught mainly by professional German teachers who were later replaced by Jewish instructors.  The director of the school was William Tannenzapf.