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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 police reports from various areas of Romania, as well as letters and complaints to local police, newspaper clippings, tables, telegrams, situation reports and correspondence. Documents relate to the activities and leaders of many political parties or movementsm including: Iron Guard; Agrarian Union Party; National Christian Party; Peasant Party; Everything for the Fatherland Party; and The National Front of Rebirth. Some police reports relate to activities of student organizations and movements, including Hitler Jugend, cultural organizations, and Association of Jewish Women. Other topics include: religious sects; relations with USSR; Bulgarian irredentists; relations between the Army and the population; Jewish leader Filderman; surveillance of foreigners from Germany and Hungary who applied for citizenship; diplomatic relations with other countries; abuses against Jews; references to the "Jewish problem;" occupation of Bessarabia by USSR and of Transylvania by Hungary; and postwar reports on Legionnaires who emigrated.

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.

Contains records of the Central Office of Romanianization (OCR) under the Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Welfare, concerning the “Romanianization” of personnel of various private enterprises and “doubling” the practice of retaining fired workers to teach new workers. Included also are a proposal to accelerate Romanianization, explanatory memoranda, the structure and budgetary expenses of the OCR, a draft law on the Romanianization of staff in Northern Bucovina and Bessarabia, activity reports of the OCR to the Ministry of Labor, press clippings, and requests by refugees and other ethnic Romanians to be “placed” in various jobs. It also contains OCR correspondence with governmental bodies, businesses, and private persons concerning Romanianization.

Includes records related to the surveillance of Jews, Jewish organizations, and Jewish movements; temples and synagogues in Bucharest; Sephardic Jews; emigration of Jewish children to Palestine; anti-Jewish laws and their application; the forced labor of Jews in Bucharest and elsewhere; the confiscation of Jewish property including radios; the surveillance of Freemasons; the Iron Guard rebellion; Jews deported to Transnistria; internees from Targu Jiu, a camp for both Jewish and non-Jewish political prisoners in Romania proper; liberation from the camps; and other matters.

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.

Various documents relating to internment of Jews in several ghettos in Romania and Bessarabia; administration of the Chișinău ghetto (including census information); the ghetto in Bălți ; the ghetto in Soroca; activities of the police in the Chișinău ghetto; disposal of Jewish property; deportations of Jews from Bessarabia to Transnistria (Ukraine); and executions of Romanian Jews.