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Lt. Gen. Jack Jacob, shown sitting in his New Delhi home, likely saved hundreds of thousands of lives while serving as chief of staff of the Indian Eastern command during the 1971 Bangladesh war. (Photo credit: Ashish Sharma/Open/JTA)

A Jewish war hero, and the last vestige of a dying Indian community

Jack Jacob, born into Calcutta’s Baghdadi community, bluffed the Pakistanis into surrendering 93,000 troops in 1971. Now he is ready to rest

By Aimee Ginsburg