On this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY, we present very personal vintage audio from Seattle food writer Ronald Holden, and a conversation with Mr. Holden about his late Aunt Marga. Her full name was Margarete Pauline Isaac, and in 1941 she lived in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation.

Marga recorded a one-minute audio disc and mailed it to her sister – Ronald Holden’s mother – in Oregon, nearly 85 years ago.

For more details, read Ronald Holden’s blog post about his Aunt Marga and the audio:

https://forkingseattlecom.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/a-voice-from-the-past/

Special thanks to Shane and Jay Burnett – the father and son behind Jay’s Radio Hour, heard Sunday nights at 9pm Pacific Time on SPACE 101.1 FM – for their invaluable and enthusiastic assistance in transferring the audio, and to Ronald Holden for sharing this priceless and very personal audio artifact.

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