Pocking was the largest DP camp in the US zone of Germany. In mid 1947 the camp had approximately 6300 Jewish inhabitants. As the camp was situated very close to the Austrian border, about half of its inhabitants were infiltrees. The DPs were housed in a former Luftwaffe camp which comprised of wooden barracks with insufficient heating. The camp was known for its bad sanitation, lack of food and bad living conditions. Despite that, the DPs managed to organize a thriving community life. Pocking had several Talmud Torahas and Yeshivot and maintained a kosher kitchen. There were also two kibbutzim and a kindergarten for 200 children.

Over 300 of Pocking DPs attended one of the twenty-five courses organized by the camp’s ORT school, one of  the largest ORT schools in Germany. The school was based in an abandoned air force hangar.  The subjects taught included nursing, corset making, radio technology, leather work, joinery, electrical engineering, dental technology, weaving, auto mechanics, and dressmaking. In addition to regular classes, the school ran a weaving course addressed especially to the Hasidic population of the camp. There was also a clothing factory employing about sixty people, each of whom was expected to make a suit a day from material supplied by the military. The completed garments were returned to the military for distribution to displaced persons camps.The school employed twenty-seven teachers, both Jewish and German. The director of ORT school in Poking was engineer Jakub Fridland.

Pocking DP camp was closed in February 1949.