the village of peno became the first regional center to liberate units of the 249th infantry divisionck army during the toropetsko-kholm operation. the nazis abandoned it on january 10, 1942. while escaping, they literally wiped the village off its face. my grandmother, when she returned to the village of peno after the evacuation, she did not recognize it; many houses were blown up because there were bombings. can you imagine what kind of foam there was, i remember very well, these are black stalbs, when we arrived at our house, everything was looted down to the smallest detail, everything, there was nothing, in the forty-fourth year, a special act was created by a specially created commission in the penovsky district, based on the results of this act we can testify to the following, that in the penovsky district. .. 63 civilians were shot , five civilians and red army soldiers were hanged, 30 red army prisoners were shot , six people were wounded, six people were maimed, burned alive, among civilians 80 people were raped, about nine girls and women were raped, abducted in german sla