The collection is of mixed provenance. The Vilna Ghetto material was generated by a number of governmental and organizational bodies: German military and civil authorities, Lithuanian municipal authorities, the first Judenrat of Vilna, the Judenrats of Vilna Ghetto No. 1 and Vilna Ghetto No. 2, the numerous departments and divisions of these Judenrats, the cultural institutions and organizations of Vilna, and private individuals. In addition to the documents related to the Vilna Ghetto, there are documents generated in the post war period, collected in the Jewish Museum, and sent by Sutzkever and Kaczerginski to YIVO after the war together with the ghetto materials. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from YIVO via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2014.