[Genealib] Finding who lived in a certain house in New Jersey pre-WWII?

[Megan Lewis]

Hello all,

Hopefully someone can help me with this question.  I work at the
Holocaust Museum in Washington.  I received an email from someone in
Israel today, and his question is related to our mission, it is beyond
my scope of knowledge.

In a nutshell:  The requester's father is the only survivor from a
large family.  After being liberated from Mauthausen, he went back to
Romania and dug up the photographs his father had buried shortly
before deportation. On the back of one of the photos is a street
address in Orange, NJ, but no names.  The requester went to the
address two years ago, but the current residents don't know who the
previous residents were.

My patron assumes the people in the photograph are his relatives, and
he would like to find them before his father passes away.

Other than the 1930 census, does anyone know of any resources,
preferably accessibly from Israel, that could help my patron?  The
land deeds might have some clues, but only if the house wasn't a
rental, and would require him to hire someone in New Jersey or travel
there himself.

Many thanks in advance,

Megan Lewis
Reference Coordinator
Survivors Registry
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum