Editing Pocking (section)

== Settlement in the Camp and Establishment of the Yeshiva ==
The Pocking camp concentrated 40,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors, including about three hundred Anash, mostly from Samarkand. They arrived during the months of Tammuz-Elul 5706 after crossing the border from neighboring Czechoslovakia and other countries. Among the notable ones were: The famous mashpia Rabbi Nissan Nemenov - director of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Samarkand. The Gaon HaChassid Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Plotkin - one of the heads of the yeshiva in Samarkand. The mashpia Rabbi Zalman Levitin. The famous Rabbi Yisroel Neveler and others. The camp was under American control, and from there it was easier to obtain visas to the United States, where the chassidim aspired to go to be in the presence of the Frierdiker Rebbe.

When the first Anash settled in Pocking, they began organizing Chabad community life despite the temporary nature of their stay there: On the auspicious day of 15 Elul 5706, Rabbi Nissan Nemenov convened a meeting of all Anash and chose from among them a committee to manage the affairs of 'Agudas Chassidei Chabad Pocking'. They also established Tomchei Tmimim Pocking and Beis Rivka Pocking institutions.