Kammala wannan jumla: Kakannin Kazickas, saboda shigarsu cikin
Tashin hankali na 1863, an tura shi zuwa cikin Rasha, inda aka haife shi a Chernaya Padina, Saratov Oblast. Iyalin sun koma Lithuania a 1922. Kazickas ya yi karatun tattalin arziki a Jami'ar Vytautas Magnus (1937-1940) da Jami'ar Vilnius (1941-1942). A Vilnius ya yi aiki a garin Vilnius kuma ya shiga cikin ƙungiyoyin juriya. A cikin 1944, yayin da Tarayyar Soviet ke cin nasara a yaƙin da Nazi Jamus, ya koma Jamus, inda ya zauna a sansanin 'yan gudun hijira kuma ya halarci Jami'ar Tübingen. A cikin 1947, an karɓe shi a kan tallafin karatu zuwa shirin digiri na biyu a Jami'ar Yale. A cikin 1951, Kazickas ya kare karatunsa game da sovietization na Czechoslovakia kuma an ba shi Ph.D. Ya ƙi zama farfesa a Jami'ar Georgetown don kafa Neris International, Inc. tare da ɗan gudun hijirar Lithuanian Juozas Valiūnas. Kamfanin da ke Manhattan ya zama babban mai fitar da kwal zuwa Jamus da Italiya bayan yakin.