Kronberg, Lillian, 1918-2010

Lillian Kronberg was a Holocaust survivor, a longtime member of Temple Beth Sholom, and a fundraiser for many Jewish organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada. Born Lola Gertler in Lublin, Poland in March 1918, she worked 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. Kronberg escaped the ghetto once by giving a guard a treasured family heirloom, 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 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. Lillian Kronberg passed away on August 8, 2010.

Sources:

Curran, Stephen. "Piece of the Warsaw Ghetto comes to LV." Las Vegas Sun (Las Vegas, NV), August 23, 2002.

Kronberg, Henry. Interview, 2015 February 26. OH-002280. Transcript. Oral History Research Center. Special Collections, University Libraries,University of Las Vegas Nevada. Las Vegas, Nevada.

"Lillian Kronberg Obituary", Las Vegas Review-Journal. Accessed May 27, 2020. http://obits.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?n=lillian-kronberg&pid=144593077