Else Adler only lived in Bad Kissingen for a short time, during which time she was employed as a cook at the Israelite children's sanatorium.
She came from a long-established Jewish family in Völkersleier, whose ancestors had lived there since the beginning of the 19th century. Else was born in February 1903 as the only child of Maier Berliner and his wife Frieda, née Hamburger, who came from Alzenau.

Little is known about the rest of her life. She married Isidor Adler, a butcher from neighboring Dittlofsroda. Their son Herbert Leo was born in May 1929. The family initially lived in Völkersleier.

Else Adler came to Bad Kissingen at the beginning of May 1938 and worked as a cook in the Israelite children's sanatorium in Salinenstraße during the summer season. She returned to Völkersleier in mid-September.

According to the census of May 1939, Else Adler was still living in her home village at Dorfstraße 21 together with her parents, her husband Isidor, their now ten-year-old son Herbert and her mother-in-law Paulina Adler.

A short time later, Else's husband was able to emigrate to England. He survived the Nazi era and emigrated to the United States after the war, but apparently returned to Germany later. The Findagrave database records that he died in Würzburg in January 1971 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery. 
All other family members were victims of the Shoah.  Else came to Würzburg probably before 1942 and apparently worked here as an employee in the Israelite Infirmary and Foundation House at Dürerstrasse 20. Her twelve-year-old son attended the Jewish elementary school in Würzburg. Else and her son Herbert Adler were deported from Würzburg to Krasniczyn on April 25, 1942 and presumably murdered a few weeks later in the Lublin area.

Else's parents Maier and Frieda had been accommodated in the Jewish old people's home and collective quarters at Dürerstraße 20 in Würzburg since 1940/1941; Else's mother-in-law Pauline also lived there. They were deported from there on September 23, 1942 on the second large transport for the elderly to Theresienstadt, where they died in the spring of 1943.