Neustadt DP camp was situated on the Bay of Lubeck in the Schleswig-Holstein district of the British zone of Germany.The camp housed survivors from Stutthof and Neuengamme concentration camps. In June 1946 Neustadt had 500 Jewish residents. The DPs were living in relatively good conditions, in wooden huts and brick barrack blocks. The camps was not severely overcrowded and with most families could be provided with a room to themselves.

The main feature of the camp was the former German submarine school in which ORT located its School for Maritime Trades and its headquarters for the entire British zone. ORT school in Neustadt was opened in December 1947, after long negotiations with the military authorities in the zone. In contrast to other ORT school in the British zone, all the preparations were completed before the arrival of the majority of students so there was no struggle for acquisition of tools and instructors, which characterized the initial stages of other institutions. The school was modern and well equipped. Its premises were repaired with great dedication by the ORT staff and camp inhabitants and machinery and equipment sent from ORT headquarters abroad. Aside from teaching facilities, there were extensive sports grounds, a swimming pool and a gymnasium. As the school trained both trainees from the Neustadt camp as well as those who in order to attend it were transferred from other British zone camps, there were also boarding facilities. The school, which in 1947 was attended by 200 students, run courses in maritime mechanical and electronic work, rigging (sailor net making etc.), radio operating and signalling, diving and marine salvage, fish dressing and welding. ORT’s schools in Neustadt also run traditional vocational courses in carpentry and machine woodworking, locksmiths training, fitting and machine shop engineering and dressmaking. In addition to purely vocational training, most students in Neustadt were given instruction in elementary arithmetic, English language, first aid and physical training. The director of the school was Captain David Kravitz, a former officer of the US Navy.

The school was closed by October 1948.