The International Student Day (November 17th) in the world is celebrated as a symbol of the struggle for democratic education and the memory of November 17th, 1939, when the Nazis executed 20 Czechoslovak students who protested against the occupation.

More than 1200 students were then taken to concentration camps, and student dorms and universities were turned into barracks.

This is the day when we remember the fighting of the students in the past, we celebrate their names and we try to understand the results of their activism. This is the day when we should look to the future, try to pay little attention to the battles ahead and to remind them that the most important lesson we have learned is nothing stronger than unity.