1923: Born in Czechoslovakia.
Apprenticeship as an electrician
1942: Deployed to forced labour at the Siemens-Schuckertwerke
Housed in the Arbeiterstadt “Große Halle”, later in the Siemens camp in Haselhorst
Comparatively good working conditions as a trained electrician
November 1943: Escaped for home after a severe bomb attack
Arrested and sent to labour re-education camp Mährisch Ostrau-Witkowitz in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
End of 1943: Deported again to Berlin for forced labour at Siemens, housed in Staaken
Beginning of 1945: Attempted to flee again, repeated imprisonment
Liberation and return to Czechoslovakia, worked as an electrician
1996: Testimony for the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt
1997: Visited Berlin

František Vendiš