Eva Kotchever, known as Eve Adams or Eve Addams, born as Chawa Zloczower was a Polish-Jewish emigre 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.
11 Facts About Eva Kotchever
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Eva Kotchever was later arrested in France in 1943 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp December 17, where she died two days later, December 19.
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Eva Kotchever was the eldest of seven children of Mordechai and Miriam Zloczower.
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Eva Kotchever was remembered by her family as the oldest sister who was "the right hand" of their mother.
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Eva Kotchever began using the English version of her name, Eve, and dressed in men's clothing.
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Eva Kotchever became involved in the anarchist movement, distributing publications, attending rallies and befriending anarchists from Mother Earth circles such as Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Ben Reitman and Henry Miller.
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Eva Kotchever was arrested by New York City's Vice Squad for obscenity and disorderly conduct after undercover police detective Margaret Leonard entered Eve's Hangout and was shown Lesbian Love.
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Eva Kotchever regularly corresponded with Ben Reitman, even after her exile to Europe.
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Eva Kotchever met some of those artists, all regulars of Le Dome Cafe, called Domiers, in the bohemian neighborhood of Montparnasse.
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Eva Kotchever read from it in 2014 at the Theater for the New City, 19th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts.
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Eva Kotchever is considered, especially in Europe, an LGBT icon.