Feldafing camp, located on the outskirts of a village in Bavaria, was the first all-Jewish DP camp in the US zone of Germany. It housed up to about 4000 DPs who lived in barracks of former elite Hitlerjugend training institute as well as in private housing requisitioned from the German inhabitants of the town. The camp opened in May 1945 and became exclusively Jewish in July 1945. A few months later, a  first all Jewish hospital was established in Feldafing. In charge of the camp was First Lieutenant Irving J. Smith, a Jewish soldier, serving in the US Army's Civil Affairs Command. Feldafing formed a very vibrant community. The two sports clubs operating in the camp had together about 500 members. The cultural life of the camp was centred in a large theatre built and decorated by the DPs. 

The camp had both a secular and religious school system. Vocational training was provided by a large ORT school, which in the end of 1947 trained 267 DPs. The school held a number of classes, which included corset making, hat making, tailoring, dressmaking shoe and boot making and auto mechanics. The school also run a popular course in dental mechanics.  Nurse training was conducted in the camp’s 250 bed hospital.  The director of the school was engineer Lew Aron.