Immigration: 10 DEC 1913 on the SS Neckar sailing on Nov 27 from Bremen, Germany into the port of, New York, NY, USA. She was listed as Perl Adler, 17, female, single, a dressmaker, last residence Janow, Russia, nearest relative in old country, father, Moische Adler, Janow, Grodno. She was going to Springfield, Mass. and had a ticket to that destination. She had $25 and was going to her uncle S. Resnik, 108 Greenwood Str., Springfield. She was described as 5 ft. 2 in., with a fair complexion, brown hair, and brown eyes. She was born in Janow, Russia. Occupation: 1930 a proprietor of a millinery, New York, NY, USA Death: 09 JUN 1962 in of cancer in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA Burial: 12 JUN 1962 Mt. Sinai Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Burial: AFT 12 JUN 1962 Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA
U.S. author and owner of bordellos. The eldest of nine children of Gertrude Koval and Morris Adler, a tailor, Pearl Adler hoped to complete gymnasium studies in her native Belorussia. However, her father sent her to America to prepare the way for the immigration of the rest of the family. Alienated from relatives, she learned to support herself in the sex industry, a survival necessity followed by a significant number of Jewish female immigrants from Eastern Europe. Unsuccessful in legitimate undertakings, a garment shop, Adler became a madam, operating a series of increasingly upscale brothel catering to gangsters and the fashionable upper classes. She retired in 1943 to Burbank, California, where she completed college. Her notoriety as the classic American madam, "a feisty, albeit disreputable, victor over adversity," was sealed by the publication of her popular memoir, A House Is Not a Home (1953) and its film version (1964)Starring Shelley Winters.
Father: Morris (MosesMoishe) Adler b: 15 JUL 1875 in Yanova, Kobrin uyezd, Grodno gubernia, Russia
Mother: Gertrude Miriam (Gitel) Koval b: 04 DEC 1878 in Russia
U.S. author and owner of bordellos. The eldest of nine children of Gertrude Koval and Morris Adler, a tailor, Pearl Adler hoped to complete gymnasium studies in her native Belorussia. However, her father sent her to America to prepare the way for the immigration of the rest of the family. Alienated from relatives, she learned to support herself in the sex industry, a survival necessity followed by a significant number of Jewish female immigrants from Eastern Europe. Unsuccessful in legitimate undertakings, a garment shop, Adler became a madam, operating a series of increasingly upscale brothel catering to gangsters and the fashionable upper classes. She retired in 1943 to Burbank, California, where she completed college. Her notoriety as the classic American madam, "a feisty, albeit disreputable, victor over adversity," was sealed by the publication of her popular memoir, A House Is Not a Home (1953) and its film version (1964)Starring Shelley Winters.
Father: Morris (MosesMoishe) Adler b: 15 JUL 1875 in Yanova, Kobrin uyezd, Grodno gubernia, Russia
Mother: Gertrude Miriam (Gitel) Koval b: 04 DEC 1878 in Russia
Immigration: 10 DEC 1913 on the SS Neckar sailing on Nov 27 from Bremen, Germany into the port of, New York, NY, USA. She was listed as Perl Adler, 17, female, single, a dressmaker, last residence Janow, Russia, nearest relative in old country, father, Moische Adler, Janow, Grodno. She was going to Springfield, Mass. and had a ticket to that destination. She had $25 and was going to her uncle S. Resnik, 108 Greenwood Str., Springfield. She was described as 5 ft. 2 in., with a fair complexion, brown hair, and brown eyes. She was born in Janow, Russia. Occupation: 1930 a proprietor of a millinery, New York, NY, USA Death: 09 JUN 1962 in of cancer in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA Burial: 12 JUN 1962 Mt. Sinai Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Burial: AFT 12 JUN 1962 Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA
U.S. author and owner of bordellos. The eldest of nine children of Gertrude Koval and Morris Adler, a tailor, Pearl Adler hoped to complete gymnasium studies in her native Belorussia. However, her father sent her to America to prepare the way for the immigration of the rest of the family. Alienated from relatives, she learned to support herself in the sex industry, a survival necessity followed by a significant number of Jewish female immigrants from Eastern Europe. Unsuccessful in legitimate undertakings, a garment shop, Adler became a madam, operating a series of increasingly upscale brothel catering to gangsters and the fashionable upper classes. She retired in 1943 to Burbank, California, where she completed college. Her notoriety as the classic American madam, "a feisty, albeit disreputable, victor over adversity," was sealed by the publication of her popular memoir, A House Is Not a Home (1953) and its film version (1964)Starring Shelley Winters.
Father: Morris (MosesMoishe) Adler b: 15 JUL 1875 in Yanova, Kobrin uyezd, Grodno gubernia, Russia
Mother: Gertrude Miriam (Gitel) Koval b: 04 DEC 1878 in Russia
U.S. author and owner of bordellos. The eldest of nine children of Gertrude Koval and Morris Adler, a tailor, Pearl Adler hoped to complete gymnasium studies in her native Belorussia. However, her father sent her to America to prepare the way for the immigration of the rest of the family. Alienated from relatives, she learned to support herself in the sex industry, a survival necessity followed by a significant number of Jewish female immigrants from Eastern Europe. Unsuccessful in legitimate undertakings, a garment shop, Adler became a madam, operating a series of increasingly upscale brothel catering to gangsters and the fashionable upper classes. She retired in 1943 to Burbank, California, where she completed college. Her notoriety as the classic American madam, "a feisty, albeit disreputable, victor over adversity," was sealed by the publication of her popular memoir, A House Is Not a Home (1953) and its film version (1964)Starring Shelley Winters.
Father: Morris (MosesMoishe) Adler b: 15 JUL 1875 in Yanova, Kobrin uyezd, Grodno gubernia, Russia
Mother: Gertrude Miriam (Gitel) Koval b: 04 DEC 1878 in Russia
