[1] Chawa Zloczower was apparently born on 27 June 1891 in Mława, Poland, although records differ as to her exact birth date.

For about eight months she ran with her partner, Swedish painter Ruth Norlander, a tea room named The Gray Cottage in Chicago, at 10 E Chestnut St,[4] a literary salon that also served as a "refuge for gay people," according to the New York Times.

[3] She 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.

[9] In 1930 she moved to Paris, where she wrote "a group of prison stories" planned to be published in The New Review (the journal ceased publication before their scheduled date).

[2][3] In Paris, she made a living by selling "dirty" books (such as works by James Joyce, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin and D. H. Lawrence) to American tourists.

Meanwhile in America exaggerated rumours about Eve Adams circulated,[3] claiming that in Paris, she ran a bookstore and a café named Le Boudoir de l'Amour in Montmartre (Brevities, 16 November 1931), and that she actively supported the Second Spanish Republic, against the regime of General Francisco Franco.

[2] In December 1943, Eve and Hella were arrested in Nice and imprisoned in the Drancy internment camp, near Paris,[2] with Zloczewer arriving there a few days before Olstein Soldner.

[11] They were deported by cattle car train to Auschwitz in the Convoy 63 on 17 December 1943, with about 850 other Jews, only 31 of whom survived until liberation in 1945, not including Eve or Hella.

[2] In 2021, events in her memory organized by the city of Paris and the Mémorial de la Shoah are rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.