Hasenecke bei Kassel was a medium size camp located in Hesse in the US occupational zone. It was located in wooden barracks and was seriously overcrowded with more than one family often living in one room. Despite overcrowding,  Hasenecke community was very active and well organized. The camp’s religious life was coordinated by the religious committee which organized a Talmud Torah and a synagogue which held memorial services for perished communities. In the end of 1947, the camp had over 2200 inhabitants, 148 of them were ORT students undertaking courses in among others galvanizing, joinery, auto mechanics and dressmaking. There was also a machine shop organised in the camp. The director of the school was engineer Abram Besewitsch

After visit to school in Hasenecke in August 1947, an ORT instructor noted:

‘When the school was started in this building, it was a wreck, and it is only gradually being made habitable. Much needs to be done to make it habitable in the summer time, much more remains to be done to make it habitable in the winter. The store room had in it a small number of tools, useful but not plentiful...Nearly everything in the school is improvised...The director is a little, almost humorously-looking man with great vivacity and friendliness. He does not conform in appearance to the usual pattern of administrator, but he has done excellent work in developing the school. He is utterly devoted to it and spends all kinds of hours in it. The result is a continuous struggle against great odds.’ [1]

The camp was closed in March 1949