Kroum Pindoff ( bg, Крум Пиндов) (1915 – 16 January 2013) was a

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businessman. Pindoff was born in Emporio,

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municipality, Kozani regional unit,

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, and raised in

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. Pindoff participated in the

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as part of the

Bulgarian Army The Bulgarian Land Forces ( bg, Сухопътни войски на България, Sukhopŭtni voĭski na Bŭlgariya, lit=Ground Forces of Bulgaria) are the ground warfare branch of the Bulgarian Armed Forces. The Land Forces were establishe ...

, and their allies the

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. Later when Bulgaria joined the Allies, he fought against the German Army. He and Eva, his German-born wife, both survivors of the war, arrived in

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in 1955 as immigrants with one single purpose in life: to make enough money to aid innocent victims of war. Forming a company called Pindoff Record Sales in 1960, he began selling records on consignment to a variety of stores in

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. By 1970, Eva became the Founding President of Music World, a company formed to market a variety of music products. Music World once consisted of 110 outlets Canada-wide with over 1,000 employees. Music World Limited was eventually sold, the buyer suffered the same fate as many record stores and was eventually liquidated by Hilco and

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. All 110 of its Canada-wide outlets closed in February 2008. The couple celebrated 50 years of their marriage in the year 2000. They recently pledged five million dollars to the

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to help

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victims become survivors. As philanthropists, both Kroum and Eva contributed more than 20,000 food parcels to senior citizens in

following the implosion of the Eastern Bloc in 1991. The Pindoffs recently built a home for 100 children in Orahavica, Gasinci,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pindoff, Kroum 1915 births 2013 deaths Canadian businesspeople Bulgarian emigrants to Canada Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia Bulgarian military personnel of World War II Canadian people of Bulgarian descent Naturalized citizens of Canada Refugees in Bulgaria People from Kozani (regional unit) 20th-century Canadian philanthropists Greek emigrants Immigrants to Bulgaria