As collective farms fell apart, everything fell apart

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Neonila Hryhorivna Klymjuk, née Danyljuk, was born on November 29th 1940 in the Vovnychi village in Rivne region, located in the west of Ukraine. She witnessed Nazi occupation of Volhyinia in years 1941 to 1944 and the events in the aftermath of the Second World War. She recalls her father serving in the Red Army and residents of Vovnychi being transported to Soviet labour camps (GULAG). After the war, Neonila Hryhorivna went to a school for ten years, then she had been working at a collective farm and after that doing several other jobs. In 2019, she has been living in the city of Dubno in the Western Ukraine.