The documents that constitute the Victor Frunză Collection were donated by Victor Frunză to INMER. The completion of a full inventory and the opening of the collection for research took place in January 2008. The donation of this collection was possible due to the efforts of the Institute, headed at that time by Dinu Zamfirescu. His purpose was to identify collections of the Romanian exile community in order to make them available for researchers. The Victor Frunză Collection is an important source of documentation for understanding and writing the history of the post-war Romanian exile community and equally for illustrating the situation of Romania under the communist regime.