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Foehrenwald Displacment Camp was located in the American zone of occupation of Germany, southwest of Munich.

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Foehrenwald was originally an international displaced persons camp. It was changed to a strictly Jewish DP camp on October 3, 1945. From 1946–1948, Foehrenwald ranked as one of the largest Jewish DP centers in the American zone of Germany.

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The population of Foehrenwald fluctuated, but in the early years, it was well over 4,000 (October 1945, 3,000; December 1945, 4,938; January 1946, 5,300).

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Foehrenwald had a police force, fire brigade, youth home, disciplinary commission, post office, and hospital. The camp supported theatrical and musical activity and published a weekly newspaper.

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There was a school for children, an ORT vocational training institute, and a yeshiva with 150 students.

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A tuberculosis epidemic in summer 1946 (382 cases) caused enough concern among the camp's central committee to warrant the creation of a Committee of Jewish Tubercular Patients in Foehrenwald.

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By June 1950, all those who had wanted to leave the camp and were able to leave had done so. Many had emigrated after the founding of Israel and the War of Independence. Only the old, the sick, and their families remained. Foehrenwald was originally supposed to close at the end of 1949, but it stayed open because there were still many people who had nowhere to go. Foehrenwald was the final DP camp to close, functioning until 1957 as a home for Jews who had no place to go.

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Residents enjoyed freedom to practice their religion. A yeshiva (rabbinic seminary and Torah academy) was established within the camp. With the presence of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, founder of the Sanz-Klausenberg Hasidic sect, and his followers, Föhrenwald became the center for Hasidic Jewry in the American sector.