Freedom's Edge
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Sarah’s biggest regret was that she had not fought hard enough, not kicked and scratched and bitten, clawed those filthy Nazis’ eyes out to keep her husband with her. Out of fear, she had cowered. No more of that. This new life, and the lives of her family and loved ones, would not slip away from her. She would fight the dirtiest of fights. She would never go quietly...
Young Sarah Lipinski is a German Jew in 1942, widowed when her husband is captured and killed in a Nazi gas chamber. Now she is in hiding with her only remaining family, the Roseweigs, refugees in a bombed-out building in war-ravaged Amsterdam, desperate to escape Europe and Hitler’s evil plan. When they receive word that many of their kind have escaped to the little Dutch protectorate of Suriname, the Roseweigs steal aboard a cargo ship, embarking on the most terrifying journey of their lives, where every roll and pitch of the ship threatens to dash their hopes for good.
Gunter Kramer is a reluctant Nazi soldier who has spent years away from his family while carrying out orders to round up Jews for labor camps. Now he has a new assignment: Hunt down the Jew who has stolen plans vital to the Reich’s success. In the tumult of his own personal tragedy, fueled by rage and despair, Gunter’s reckless manhunt is leading him straight to the Roseweigs and Suriname.
Now the band of refugees must devise a plan to protect what they know, outwit their persecutors, and regain their freedom ... for good.
Inspired by true events, Freedom's Edge is a fictional account of a terrorized yet valiant group of Jewish refugees who dared to escape the brutal dictator of the Third Reich. Written by Jagdish Goswami, a physician who formerly served the British Royal Navy as his hospital’s Liaison Medical Officer, this powerful tale reveals the endlessly courageous and tragic journey of this unlikely band of warriors as they make their hair's-breadth escape, tenaciously balanced on the knife's edge of hope and freedom.
Jagdish Goswami
Dr. Jagdish Goswami, or “Doctor G,” as his colleagues know him, is a family physician, originally from India. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley.Goswami was serving as a physician at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital in Guyana when the British battleship H.M.S. Fearless docked in Guyana for commando jungle training in July of 1994. His work as the hospital's Liaison Medical Officer to the ship earned him a commendation from the Lieutenant of the Royal Marines. Also while at St. Joseph's, Goswami worked as a Hospital Liaison Medical Officer for the Pan American Health Organization’s Polio Eradication Program. He also performed work in the Amazonian region of Rupununi in southern Guyana. Fluent in English, Farsi, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, and Marathi, he was uniquely qualified to appreciate the linguistic richness of Guyana and Suriname.A historical tale told him by the local residents during the time he spent in Guyana provided him with the basic storyline for Freedom’s Edge. Much of the color, complexity, and hair-raising adventure of inland travel in that area came from his own experiences. The sunken German transport (named Klein Seyditz in the book) is still visible in the harbor at Paramaribo.Goswami’s background in exotic places includes collaboration with fellow medical professionals in Yemen, Guyana, and the Sultanate of Oman. His travels have taken him to the Commonwealth of Independent States, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, Canada, Guyana, Suriname, and the United Arab Emirates. He has done organizational emergency and medical needs planning for large public events and produced training materials for many audiences. In his first field assignment in his home country, he was stationed in a rural area where he had experience taking care of patients with tiger bites!Now a United States citizen, Goswami has served as executive director for the Toiyabe Indian Health Project in Bishop, California; assistant professor at Samuel Merritt University; and instructor of both clinical medicine at the Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Western medicine at the Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley. He has worked among the indigenous Ameri-Indians in the Amazon on a social/economic/health project called “Hopeful Steps,” a Guyana-based nonprofit organization, and created educational materials that were field tested and later adopted by the Guyanese Ministry of Health.Currently, Goswami resides in California with his wife.
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