The war was near its end when the knowing Wehrmacht transport commander kept delaying the train to be liberated by the advance units of the US Army.
In charge of the camp was First Lieutenant Irving J. Smith, a Jewish soldier and peacetime attorney, serving in the Army's Civil Affairs Command.
Feldafing also had a rabbinical council that supported its religious office, an agency that held considerable influence within the camp.
Housed in a separate kinderblock of 450 children and adolescents, many of Feldafing's youngsters organized into "kibbutzim" groups interested in aliyah to Eretz Israel.
The theatre troupe, "Amchu" [Yiddish: your people], was sponsored by the camp's Jewish Workers Committee.
Ben-Gurion's initial visit to the camp in October 1945 was an important boost of confidence to the population of Feldafing and its central committee.
Feldafing's camp committee was subdivided into several offices, including staffs for housing, provisions, economics, sanitation, culture, and legal matters.
The Feldafing court helped investigate the perpetrators of the Kielce pogrom of 1946 and publicized information about the Nazi murderers of Lithuanian Jews who were thought to have been in the vicinity.
This article incorporates text from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum webpage, and has been released under the GFDL licence.