Several groups of holdings comprise the Museum’s writing collection: books, press, manuscripts and posters. A separate collection represents documentary material. A unique and most valuable set of items among these groups are books from the Romm publishing house and ghetto documents including handwritten diaries.

There are more than 10 Romm publish house publications in the collection. Among the more valuable are: the Sefer Menorat ha-Maor (1844) and Jeruslaem and Babylonian Talmuds. One of the oldest books preserved in the collection is the Lexicon Hebraicum, dated 1789.

Other publications by famous Vilnius publishing houses are also conserved in the Museum’s collections: by Abraom Tsvi Rozenkrants and Mendel Shriftsetser, Abraom Dvorzhets, Boris Kletskin, Abraom Tsvi Katselenbogen.

 Unique items in the manuscript collection include the Vilnius ghetto diaries of Grigoriy Shur and Zelig Kalmanovich, Kaunas ghetto diary of Gerber and Siauliai ghetto diary of Pik. The documentary material collection includes identification documents of Lithuanian Jews including from the period till the Holocaust.

 Besides the ghetto diary manuscripts, Vilnius and Kaunas ghetto Jewish identification documents, sixteen posters on Vilnius ghetto cultural themes and other items testify to the fact of the Holocaust.

 More than a dozen different newspapers and magazines in Yiddish and Hebrew are contained in the press collection: Di Yidishe Shtime, Folkstsaitung, Folksgezunt, Frimorgn, Undzere Tsait, Tog, Vilner Emes, Der Emes, Di Voch, Ha-olam and others.