Bayerish Gmain
Bayerish Gmain DP centre was a children’s camp in Bavaria. Almost all of the 80 children who were living in the camp in mid 1947 attended ORT run vocational courses- joinery and locksmiths training for boys and dressmaking for girls. In the first few weeks of the course girls training in the ORT school made white blouses for the first Chanukah party organized in the camp. The children would spend time between nine am and two pm in regular classes and then attend ORT training between three and five pm. The Director of the school was Mr. Gittelman. The school had very well organized social life. Children attended screenings of films in Yiddish. They had their own newspaper, to which they contributed short stories.
Bayerish Gmain was also a site of rehabilitation centre for TB patients in the last stage of the treatment. ORT vocational courses conducted in the centre were meant to ensure that their physical recuperation was connected with learning a trade necessary for independent living. The courses ran in Bayerish Gmain included bookbinding, dressmaking, typewriter repair, men's underwear, corset making, leather work, radio technology, joinery, watch making and tailoring. they were attended by approximately ninety students.
