Significance:
International Students' Day is an international observance. It is originally commemorating the Nazi German storming of Czech universities in 1939 and the subsequent killing and sending of students to concentration camps.
Type:
Observances
Observed by:
Students
Location:
World
Initiator:
International Union of Students
Start year:
1941
Date origin:
November 17 is the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague after demonstrations against the killing of Jan Opletal and worker Václav Sedlá?ek as well as against the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and the execution of ni