A magyar olimpiai mozgalom elfelejtett ünnepe: 1944. február 20.
The Forgotten Celebration of the Hungarian Olympic Movement: 20 February 1944

Summary/Abstract: The International Ski Jumping Competition of the Olympic Hill – this is how the Hungarian Ski Federation announced the ski jumping event at the Borsafüred Olympic ski jumping hill. The highlight of the Hungarian ski championships held between 18 and 20 February 1944, was the inauguration of Europe’s largest and the world’s fourth-largest ski jumping hill. The goal was not small: the Hungarian sports leadership took another step towards the completion of the Hungarian ski town, Borsafüred, which could soon host the Winter Olympics. For this purpose, many things were completed between 1941 and 1944: a downhill and slalom course (also named Olympia), the first modern hotel, the first high-mountain refuge, smaller shelters, and, perhaps equally important, infrastructure was developed: railway connections, cable cars, water and power supply, and a massive innovation, the construction of the cableway. Its greatest international celebration was the inauguration event on 20 February 1944, with the top German and Norwegian jumpers, the entire Hungarian ski and jump team, a Swedish cross-country skier, and a Polish ski jumping captain – all of this during the most challenging years of the war, when the front rapidly approached the Eastern Carpathians and the vicinity of the Rodna Mountains.

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