How to Pronounce Miroslav Sláma
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Aug 03, 1917 Třebíč, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic Died on 30 Nov 2008 (aged 91)
Czechoslovak ice hockey player
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About Miroslav Sláma
- Michael Miroslav Sláma (August 3, 1917 in Trebíc, Vysocina, Austria-Hungary – November 30, 2008 in Thousand Oaks, California) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak national team.
- He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics.Toward the end of World War II, Sláma was interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp until it was liberated by the Red Army on 8 May 1945.
- He defected to Switzerland in December 1948 during an ice hockey tournament in Davos, and spent five years as a player and coach there before emigrating to the United States where he became a librarian and library administrator.
