Miroslav Sláma
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Representing  Czechoslovakia
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| Men’s Ice Hockey | ||
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1948 St. Moritz | Team |
Miroslav Sláma (August 3, 1917 in Třebíč, Vysočina, 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.[1]
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.[2]
References
- ^ Czechoslovakia Ice Hockey at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games
- ^ Wallechinsky, David & Loucky, Jaime (2009) "Ice Hockey: Men". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited; p. 23
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