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Consists of an article entitled “The Life of the Jews in Bucharest, 1940–1944,” which contains information about Jewish schools, Jewish emigration, antisemitism, and Zionist activities undertaken by the Jews of Bucharest. Included is an excerpt of this history that was printed in Revista Istorica, nr. 3–4, 1992.

Contains information about the 1944 sinking of the merchant ship Mefkure which was used to transport approximately 300 Romanian Jews to Palestine. The author attempts to prove that the German military sunk the Mefkure, and not the Soviet military as was previously believed. Also contains a list of the victims' names.

Contains records of the Federation of Union of Jewish Communities and the O.S.E. Bucharest branch relating to its relief and aid activities for Jews who were deported to Transnistria and those in Greater Romania. Also contains name lists of Jews originally from Transylvania and interned to the USSR, lists of orphaned children and the victims of the Iasi pogrom, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Romania information forms on families in Vaslui, Iasi and Burdeni, registration cards of deportees, newspaper clippings, album and documents containing photographs of Pogrom of Bucharest, registration cards of deportees, as well as records relating to forced labor, social assistance, and anti-Jewish measures.

Contains records of surveillance of Jews and expropriation of their property in Bessarabia and Bukovina, as well as surveillance and intimidation of other minorities such as Protestants.

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.

Includes selected fragments of transcripts from war crimes trials held in Cluj, Romania, from 1944 to 1945, documents from the Inspectoratul de jandarmi, Inspectoratul de politie (including police reports from Cluj, Turda, Abrud, Aiud, Dej, Huedin, Zalau, Alba Iulia), and Parchetul General, Prefuctura judetului, Tinutul, Parchetul General Maghiar, and Pretura plasii Cluj, and a few documents from the Prefectura judetului Somes and the Jandarmeria judetului Turda. Most are status reports, requests, transcripts of trials, and police/gendarmes reports on everything from Zionist and Legionary movements to Hungarian irredentism.

Records of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party related to the emigration to Israel, the World Jewish Congress international meeting in Montreux, Switzerland; economic relations with Israel, and to the American Jewish Committee and Jewish Democratic Committee in Bucharest. The collection includes correspondence, protocols, minutes, and statistics of Jewish population and other documents related to Jewish question. This collection includes also 2 files relating to the arrest of young Jews involved in Jewish resistance against the Antonescu regime, 1942 (Fond 96, flies #655 & 664, paper copies).

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.

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.

Includes records, mostly from the war years, concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. They include selected records from the prefecture of Timiş-Torontal, the Legion of Gendarmerie of the Severin district, the regional police inspectorate and Chief of the municipal police of Timişoara, the police headquarters of Oraşului Lugoj, and the Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc Timisoara.