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Records of the military cabinet of Ion Antonescu. Topics covered include the persecution and deportation of Jews, confiscation of Jewish properties, and military actions against partisans. There are also secret police records relating to the Romanian withdrawal from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina in 1940, as the USSR occupied these regions. Microfilms accreted in 2013 contain various correspondence of Antonescu with Hitler, Maniu, Horia Sima, as well as reports on Iron Guard and communist activities, SSI reports, decision of Antonescu relating to the "Jewish problem," decision of Antonescu relating to communists, correspondence with General Schobert, correspondence between the General Staff of the Army with the German military mission, orders of Antonescu to various Ministries, letters from Antonescu to Ribbentrop and Horia Sima, letters to Antonescu relating to the occupation of Odessa, andletters to Antonescu relating to the Iron Guard rebellion.

Contains selected records, concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. Includes records from the Jewish communities of the following localities: Bacău (from 1935 to 1950), and Moineşti, and Tg. Ocna (from prewar to 1945). Records include memos, inventories of assets, budgets, donations, local Jewish newspapers, publications, school correspondence, a census of Jewish children, health correspondence, the Jewish theater, aid to the poor, aid to the sick, aid to students, aid for pesach, a history of the Jewish community written in 1942, the situation of rabbis and the condition of synagogs; issues of Jewish citizenship, special taxes on Jews, antisemitic propaganda, and local and general elections; forced Jewish labor, name lists of those sent to forced labor, name lists of Jews who worked as forced labor for German military units, name lists of Jews who were deported, and Jews who died in the war at the front; aid to refugees from Bessarabia and Bukovina, requests for aid, correspondence with the US, aid to Jews who returned from Transnistria, and correspondence with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Contains selected records from Ministry of National Economy. Records include following subjects: implementation of legislation regarding Jewish and non-Jewish staff of industries; expropriation of Jewish goods; the antisemitic polices of the Iron Guards; Iron Guard control of Jewish companies; surveillance of Jewish commerce; regulations concerning food packages sent to Jews in Transnistria; reports on Jewish commerce; forced labor of Jews in Ilia, in the Hunedoara district; aryanization of Jewish enterprises; memos of W. Filderman about the Jewish star (star of David); orders concerning forced labor of Jews; reports concerning confiscation of Jewish property in the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" and in Slovakia; reports on the situation of Jews in Vaslui district; situation report on Jewish citizenship; confiscation of Jewish property, including abandoned commercial property and Jewish stores; and aryanization of personnel; regulations re Jewish-owned companies and confiscation ofJewish companies; ayranization of land; transfer of money to Jews interned in camps in Transnistria; deliveries of goods and tools to Jews interned in camps in Transnistria; packages of food for the Jews working in forced labor in Transnistria; interdiction of commerce between Jews and peasants in Moldova; interdiction of participation of Jews in public auctions; illegal dealings in Suceava in goods formerly belonging to Jews; and commerce in Moghilev; disbanding of the government directorate of ayranization; table of Volksdeutsche arrested by Romanian soviet detachments and put to work at forced labor; and aid to 500 Jews from Northern Transylvania who were in Switzerland; reacceptance of Jewish employees into the Ministry of Public Works; help for 500 Jews originally from North Transylvania, now in Switzerland; confiscation of goods of ethnic Germans; liquidation of the center for Romanianization; annulment of the legislation which created the center for Romanianization; and the question of Jewish emigration to Palestine.

Reports, lists, orders, correspondence, court documents, and testimonies relating to the surveillance of Romanian Jews (including Chief Rabbi Moses David Rosen), Jewish organizations, foreigners in Romania, and members of the Iron Guard (Garde de Fier) by the Serviciul Special de Informatii and other agencies; the special taxes, forced labor, and morale of Jews; the establishment of the Czernowitz (Chernivt︠s︡i) ghetto; the deportation of Jews from Transylvania and other locations to Transnistria (Ukraine); the emigration of Jews from Romania to Palestine; Romanian Jews in concentration camps; massacres and pogroms carried out in Romania; the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross and of other humanitarian agencies; war crime investigations; war crime trials of Ion Antonescu and others; and the surveillance of Zionists and other illegal Jewish organizations. Also contains information on Jews, includes card files, registration forms, and cards with the identification data for Jews. Some documents have photos of the individuals. Additional records accreted in 2007 contains the SRI's personal file on Silviu Brucan, who was a political scientist and Romanian government official. Formerly a deputy editor of the newspaper of the Romanian communist party, in 1987 he became an opponent of the Ceaucescu regime. Records accreted in 2015 contains: Interrogations of SSI leaders (Fond Penal): Eugen Cristescu (SRI FP/Bucuresti 48163-4 volumes); Gheorghe Cristescu (SRI FP/Bucuresti 17474-3 volumes)-Iasi pogrom, photos of pogrom, history of SgkSI, Iron Guards, Antonescu Ion Lissievici (SRI FP/Bucuresti 25374-36 volumes)-SSI, pogrom Iasi, SSI and Eastern Front.

Memoranda, lists, charts, maps, correspondence, orders, reports, and other documents relating to Jews in forced labor in Romania; deportations of Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina to Transnistria (Ukraine); establishment of concentration camps in Transnistria; confiscation of Jewish property; executions of Jews; surveillance of Jews in Transnistria; and Hungarian atrocities in Transylvania.

Collections contains police, gendarmerie, and intelligence reports, name lists, and correspondence. Documents relate to the situation of Polish refugees in Romania (e.g. Colonel Joseph Beck and other Polish dignitaries), also relate to the Zionists, members of ethnic minorities, and to the internal situation in various counties in Romania, in Northern Bukovina, and in Bessarabia under Soviet occupation. Records include name list of "anti-Romanian" persons, name list of 1610 persons who requested repartitions to the Soviet Union in 1941, diverse correspondence from gendarmerie in Soroca, Bessarabia (now Romania), police reports from Berezove (Berezovka), Ukraine, on the murder of 4,000 Jews by German police. Collection also consists of reports on the deportation of Roma to Transnistria, intelligence reports from Odessa, Ukraine, on Communist partisan activities, and some clippings from Romanian newspapers.