Eva Kotchever | |
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| Born | Chawa Złoczower 15 June 1891 Mława, Poland |
| Died | 19 December 1943 (aged 51–52) |
| Other names | Chawa Złoczower, Eve Adams, Evelyn Addams, Eve AddamsI |
| Occupation(s) | Librarian, writer, novelist, bartender |
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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 on 17 December, where she was murdered two days later on 19 December.[1]