During her research into women prisoners in concentration camps, the feminist activist and publisher Suzette Robichon discovered the story of Eva Kotchever. Known by several monikers, of which Eva Adams is an example, Eva was born in 1891 in Mława into a Polish-Jewish family as Chawa Złoczower.
In 1912, Eva Kotchever emigrated from Poland to the United States, where she became involved in the anarchist movement. She also published "Lesbian Love", the first collection in the lesbian pulp fiction genre, having been published three years before "The Well of Loneliness" by Radclyffe Hall in 1925. During the Prohibition, she opened the Eve Adams Tearoom, a popular meeting point for lesbian women. Due to the publication of the book, she was arrested for obscenity and deported to Poland after being purposely seduced by an undercover policewoman. From there she moved to Paris, where she sold books banned in the US.
In 1943, she got involved with Hella Olstein, a Jewish singer from Łódź. Due to a lack of funds, they failed to emigrate from France
in time, were transported to Auschwitz, and murdered.