Henry Kronberg

Henry Kronberg is a Holocaust survivor and former owner of Stoney's Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born April 14, 1920 in Germany and raised in Poland. During most of World War II Kronberg lived in Krakow, Poland doing manual labor for the Gestapo while living first in a ghetto and then in a prison. In January 1945 he was sent to a concentration camp, and was in a total of three concentration camps before the Germans were defeated in April 1945. After liberation he met his future wife Lillian, who had been in one of the same camps as he. Henry and Lillian Kronberg were married in 1946 and moved to the United States in March 1947. They lived in Newark, New Jersey where Kronberg worked as a watchmaker, a painter, and a baker. After losing contact with his sister during the war 20 years earlier, in 1960 Kronberg found out that she was alive and living in Las Vegas, Nevada. He moved to Las Vegas with his family in 1962 and became business partners with his brother-in-law Bob Powell, who owned Pioneer Jewelry and Loan. After a few years Kronberg bought Stoney's Pawn Shop, which he managed until he retired in 1998.

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Kronberg, Henry. Interview, 2015 February 26. OH-02280. Transcript. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.