International Students' Day marked today
It is conducted in memory of the students who opposed to the Nazi authorities in Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Students went out to the streets of occupied Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1939 to commemorate the anniversary of the independence of the Czechoslovak Republic. A student the Medical Faculty of Charles University Jan Opletal was shot. His funeral turned into a protest action. More than 1200 students were arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Nine students and activists were executed.
The International Students’ Council took place in London two years later. It was decided to announce this day the Students’ Day.
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