Lillian Kronberg

Lillian Kronberg (?-August 8, 2010) was a Holocaust survivor, a longtime member of Temple Beth Sholom, and a fundraiser for many Jewish organizations.She was born in Lublin, Poland and was working in the Warsaw ghetto as a dressmaker during the beginning of the World War II.  While living in the ghetto she was only permitted to leave to go to work.  This work included sewing clothes for local women as well as German soldier's uniforms. Speaking of this experienceKronberg stated, "they needed (dressmakers) at the time...That saved me some time." Kronberg escaped the ghetto once by giving a guard a treasured family heirloo, a ring, as well as some money.  Kronberg was only free for a little while as she was turned in to the Gestapo and has to return to her work in the ghetto.  While working in the Warsaw ghetto Lillian met her future husband, Henry Kronberg, when he was chosen to work at Gestapo headquarters. Lillian Kronberg was then sent to the concentration camps Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen where she spent almost two years.After liberation in 1945 Lillian reconnected with her future husband, Henry, and they were married in 1946.  They then moved to the United States in 1947 and joined Lillian's relatives in New Jersey. The couple moved to Las Vegas in 1962 where her husband bought Stoney's Pawn Shop which he managed until he retired in 1998.