Eva Kotchever
Eva Kotchever (1891 – 19 December 1943), known also as Eve Adams or Eve Addams, born as Chawa Złoczower, was a Polish-Jewish émigré librarian and writer, who is the author of Lesbian Love and from 1925 to 1926 ran a popular, openly lesbian literary salon in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, called Eve's Hangout. It closed after Eva was convicted and jailed for obscenity and disorderly conduct, which resulted in her deportation to Poland in 1927. She was later arrested in France in 1943 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp December 17, where she died two days later, December 19.
Eva Kotchever | |
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| Born | Chawa Złoczower 15 June 1891 Mława, Poland |
| Died | 19 December 1943 (aged 51–52) Auschwitz, Nazi German occupated Poland |
| Other names | Chawa Złoczower, Eve Adams, Evelyn Addams, Eve AddamsI |
| Occupation(s) | Librarian, writer, novelist, bartender |
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