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Jurate Kazickas, President of the Kazickas Family Foundation, wants to create a better world for Lithuanians
By Ann Charles, Baltic Review
Jurate Kazickas, an author and former journalist who covered the Vietnam War, is now the President of the largest private foundation in Lithuania, the Kazickas Family Foundation.
&#;Motivated by the wish to create a better world for both current and future generations of Lithuanians,&#; Jurate, who has offices in Vilnius and New York, is on a roll and there&#;s no stopping her now.
Born in Lithuania, she arrived in the USA on February 18, as a four year-old child with her parents, Joseph and Alexandra Kazickas, aboard the S.S. Ernie Pyle. Following fifty years of Soviet occupation, the Baltic flags of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia finally flew over the United Nations for the very first time on September 17,
As noted in the book, &#;Odyssey of Hope&#; by Joseph Kazickas with Valdas Bartasevicius,
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THE VFA pionjär HISTORIES PROJECT
Jurate Kazickas
“I Became A Feminist in Vietnam When The Officers Invited Me to Dinner &#; But Not To The Front Line”
Interviewed by Penny Stoil, September ; Dave Sperling, Videographer
PS: 70 years ago, when you were just a little girl you and your parents became refugees when the Soviet army began to move toward your home in Lithuania. You wound up in Germany and you spent three frightening and chaotic years in a displacement camp before you finally arrived in amerika. How has this family history, which is your history, shaped your life, your thinking and ultimately your work?
JK: Oh my goodness.
Well You&#;re Always An Immigrant.
You&#;re always not quite percent American even though inom feel totally American. The history of the World War II &#; and what my family went through &#; has really been an enormous part of my life because my homeland Lithuania was under communist Soviet occupation for more than 50 years. And my fathe
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On December , , Maironis Lithuanian School (Lemont, IL) organized a conference-seminar “Teacher to Teacher”. Marius Kasniūnas, Chairman of LF Board of Directors, greeted the participants and presented each participant with a LF calendar and a national sash. Every year for 50 years Lithuanian Foundation financially supports Lithuanian schools. This year Kazickas Family Foundation generously supported schools as well. During the conference, Jūratė Kazickas, President of Kazickas Family Foundation, and Marius Kasniūnas, Chairman of LF Board of Directors, shared the experience concerning the most important Lithuanian Foundation’s priority – a financial support for the Lithuanian schools and education. They discussed possibilities and plans to keep in touch and continue cooperation in the future.
Marius Kasniūnas, Chairman of LF Board of Directors, and Jūratė Kazickas, President of Kazickas Family Foundation.
From the left: orginizers of the conference Austėja Sruoga, Chair o