The records were created by Ethel and Jakir Eventov in Haifa, Israel during the 1950s and forms part of the Hitachdut Oley Yugoslavia (Association of Jewish Immigrants from Yugoslavia). The Archives was originally housed in Mr. and Mrs. Evenotv’s home. In 1986 the materials were transferred to the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, from which United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired them. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2008, and accretion in March 2011.