Miroslav Sláma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Miroslav Sláma

Czechoslovak ice hockey player

Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1917

Place of Birth: Třebíč, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 30-Nov-2008

Profession: librarian, ice hockey player

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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.