ORT’s third school district was located in the south-east part of the American Zone of Germany. Its capital was located in Passau, a university town in lower Bavaria. During the war, Passau was the site of three sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

ORT operated nine schools in the district, located in Aschau, Wasserburg, Pocking, Passau, Purten, Deggendorf, Eggenfelden, Holzhausen, and Altotting. Due to large numbers of infiltrees in the area, the majority of schools were set up in camps located on or near the border. There were 1017 students enrolled into fifty-seven types of courses offered in twenty-seven subjects. Classes were led by eighty instructors.

In the Passau district ORT ran a great variety of courses. Pre-vocational training for children, many of them orphans, was conducted in Aschau and Purten I DP camps. Classes for kibbutzniks preparing for their Aliyah were organised in Purten II and Holzhausen.

In the DP camp in Passau ORT offered vocational courses to over fifty DP patients in the final stages of recovery from tuberculosis. The sanatorium was installed in an ancient Jesuit College, adapted for the needs of TB patients. ORT vocational courses in the school, which formed part of the DPs rehabilitation process, were in most cases a follow on from courses started by the patients in the Gauting TB sanatorium, in the Munich school district.