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- Jean Daskalidès was born on December 23, 1922 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was a director and producer, known for Kruiswegstraat 6 (1973), Injection Moulding of Ryton (1975) and Injection Moulding of Solprene Teleblock Rubber (1975). He died on November 3, 1992 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium.
- The family Daskalidès escaped from Turkey in 1923 to Gent, Belgium because of the fact that the Turks killed the Greek who lived at that time in Constantinopel (Istanbul). He was from 1941 till 1946 the band leader and second trumpeter of the jazz-band 'The Blue Swingers'. He became a technical engineer in 1944 in Gent and afterwards he worked in the tea-room of his parents. From 1970 he was the director of the 2 world-famous praline factories 'Leonidas' and 'Daskalidès' (1979).
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