Marcel Adams

Marcel Adams was a Canadian real estate investor and Holocaust survivor who founded Iberville Developments.

1920 to 2020Founding Iberville DevelopmentsCanadian real estate investmentSurviving the Holocaust

Born: 2 August 1920, Piatra Neamț
Died: 11 August 2020, Montreal
Occupation: businessperson, tanner, military personnel
Wars: 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Marcel Adams was born in 1920 in Piatra Neamț

Marcel Abramovich, later Adams, was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in Romania. His father worked as a tanner.

During World War II he was forced to work in Nazi labor camps from 1941 to 1944. He escaped to Turkey and from there reached Mandatory Palestine, where he fought in Israel's War of Independence.

In 1951 he moved to Canada and worked at a tannery in Quebec City. He started investing in real estate in 1955 and founded Iberville Developments in 1958, opening its first mall in 1959. His son Sylvan later ran the company, and in 2017 it owned more than 100 properties.

In 2005 he set up a scholarship fund in his name, which supported Israeli researchers. He married Annie Adams in 1953, and they had 4 children. He died on August 11, 2020.