Oral history interview with Sidney Willig Oral History Sidney Willig, born in New York City, NY in , describes being raised in an Orthodox family; attending public school and training as a soccer player and boxer; antisemitism in the US in the s and s, including discrimination while searching for employment; being rejected from the Navy; antisemitic incidents in the Air Force; being a navigator in the Air Force during World War II; being shot down over the Netherlands; receiving from Dutch families and the Dutch underground from November to April ; his decision to continue wearing his dog tags, which displayed the Ten Commandments, until his liberation; his thoughts on the vast network of Nazi influence, because on his return to New York the Vichy consular officer in Washington, DC requested from him the names of those who had helped him in Holland; returning to New York and continuing his college studies at St.