Gauting was a TB sanatorium for DP patients in the first stage of their treatment, situated seventeen kilometres southwest of Munich. During the war it served as the German Air Force hospital. Most of the original patients in Gauting were Dachau survivors. The camp housed on average 500 patients, the vast majority of them Jewish. It had a distinct shortage of Jewish nurses and doctors.

As part of the rehabilitation process Gauting DP patients  often attended ORT courses. The work was divided into two groups 'occupational therapy' and 'vocational training'. Occupational therapy was applied to students who were still in bed. They spend one or two hours a day doing handicraft work. Vocational training was aimed at students at a later stage of therapy. Those students attended classes similar to those in a regular ORT school.The most popular subject taught at Gauting  was radio technology, with thirty-eight students. Patients who attended this course and were moved for the final stage of the therapy to other sanatoriums which provided ORT training were expected to continue their course work there.

The sanatorium went under the German administration in 1952.