Source of acquisition is the Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹkoï oblasti (State Archives of Zhytomyr Oblast). The records were created by various German military, police, and civilian occupation authorities and were left in Zhytomyr oblast by the retreating Germans. They were maintained by Soviet security forces and were later transferred to Zhytomyr State Oblast Archive, Ukraine, from which United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired them. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in 1996.