- It also commemorates the courage and sacrifice of the students who protested against the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
- The origin of this day goes back to October 28, 1939, when students of the Medical Faculty at Charles University in Prague held a demonstration to commemorate the anniversary of the independence of the Czechoslovak Republic.
- The Nazis brutally suppressed the gathering, resulting in the death of a student named Jan Opletal.
- His funeral procession on November 15 turned into an anti-Nazi demonstration, which provoked the Nazi authorities to take drastic measures.
- They closed all Czech higher education institutions, arrested more than 1,200 students, and executed nine student leaders and professors without trial on November 17.
- They also sent many students to concentration camps, where some of them died.
Question:
Q.1 When was the first observance of International Students’ Day?a. 1939
b. 1941
c. 1945
d. 1950
