 A considerable number of people were arrested in Tartu in December 1919 and a number of German estate owners were executed on the frozen river on January 9, 1919.A concentration camp was also set up near Luga, in January of 1919.Just before Tartu was seized, the communists executed clergymen and other prisoners in the basement of a town bank, among the victims were Bishop Platon, the priest Sergei Florinski and the pastor Traugott Hahn.