Born
during the first World War, raised in various European countries, including
Macedonia where he was born, and Bulgaria where he spent many of his formative
years, Kroum Pindoff and Eva, his German-born wife, both survivors of the
horrors of war, arrived in Canada 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 Toronto. By 1970, Eva became the
Founding President of Music World, a company formed to market a variety
of music products. Today Music World consists of 110 outlets Canada-wide
with over 1,000 employees. In the pink of life, these proud Canadians are
capitalizing on the chance of a lifetime to help the innocent victimized
by the ravages of war. The couple, married 50 years in the year 2000, recently
pledged five million dollars to the Red Cross to help landmine victims
become survivors. As philanthropists, both Kroum and Eva paid to send more
than 20,000 food parcels to senior citizens in Bulgaria following the implosion
of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Pindoffs recently built a home for 100
children in Orahavica, Gasinci, Croatia. They visit the orphanage yearly
and consider the children living there as part of their extended family.
This recent view of the Pindoffs reveals some of the ongoing Pindoff projects,
including the development of homes for the aged in Bosnia. [Photo, courtesy
Eva and Kroum Pindoff]