Hungarian author Eva Földes won the bronze medal at the 1948 art competitions in the category epic works with The Well of Youth.(Der Jugendquell). During World War II she was interned at the concentration camps at Ravensburg, Flossenbürg and Mauthausen, but survived the Holocaust. She was an educated teacher of French, Italian and Latin and a journalist, but was prohibited to work in 1944 by the Nazis, and was then was deported to concentration camps. She worked as a journalist again after 1945, and in 1948 was a secretary of the Hungarian Olympic Team and worked as a translator. From 1954-57 she was employed by a Hungarian sports newspaper, while in 1961 she became a professor and a well- published sports historian. She died in a boat accident on Lake Balaton.
Kramer describes the manuscript, which is only available in Hungarian, as a “chronologically laid out cultural and sports historical study, written in anecdotal style with classical quotations” on “the role of women [in sport] from the early period to about 1600”. The manuscript also contains an extensive bibliography. It was planned as part of a multi-volume work on women in sports. The first part of a lecture given by Eva Földes in 1964 before the International Olympic Academy gives a kind of summary. She also used the title A fiatalság forrása for a chapter in her 1954 book Az úszás mesterei (The Masters of Swimming), a short history of swimming from antiquity to the present day.
Hungary