Niesmiertelna Linia Несмертельная Линия The Immortal Line
A private record of 95 souls across 182 years and 4 continents. The Kukosh, Czarnecki, Снигурский, Несмертельный, and Баран lineages — gathered from archives, oral history, and the patient reconstruction of faces lost to time.
⌃ This week in the line
I The five lineages
Czarnecki Чарнецкий
24 recorded people
The trunk of the tree. Polish primary form; the Ukrainian register reads Чернецький.
Снигурский Снигурский
11 recorded people
Polish: Śniegurski. Ukrainian transliteration: Snihurski.
Niesmiertelny Несмертельный
8 recorded people
Literally, “the immortal.” The surname that named this site.
Баран Баран
10 recorded people
Marriage line entering through the Снигурский branch.
Kukosh Кукош
4 recorded people
The youngest of the named lines. Carried forward into the present day.
Memorial
Arrested 19 April 1938 for “counter-revolutionary activity.” Sentenced and executed by the NKVD during the Polish Operation. Rehabilitated 20 February 1957. He left no portrait. The site exists, in part, to keep him from being lost a second time.
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