Joseph Kazickas

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Joseph Kazickas


Born
April 16, 1918

Died
July 09, 2014


Joseph Kazickas, a summer resident of East Hampton for 55 years, died of kidney failure on July 9 at his home on Egypt Lane. Mr. Kazickas, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, was 96 years old.

His entire life was proof that truth can be more dramatic, and more colorful, than fiction. Raised in Lithuania, he and his wife, the former Alexandra Kalvenas, were resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II. With their infant daughter, Jurate, they were forced to flee in 1944 when Soviet troops occupied the country. After three years in camps for displaced persons in Germany, they immigrated to the United States, where he earned a Ph.D. in economics at Yale in less than four years.

Mr. Kazickas remained hopeful that his country would on
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