Date of birth:

May 15th, 1919 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

February 12th, 1945 (Haarlem/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 35. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Amsterdam, Bilderdijkstraat 80-I. Son of hairdresser Johannes Charles Petrus Genemans (24 July 1893 Amsterdam – 5 August 1957 Amsterdam) and Anna Maria Catharina Schweitzer (13 July 1894 Amsterdam – 15 September 1965 Amsterdam). Unmarried. Salesman in toiletries/hairdresser in his father's salon for men and women/manufacturer of doll's heads. Roman Catholic. Member of the resistance belonging to KP-Amsterdam.
In the autumn of 1942, he started manufacturing dolls' heads in a warehouse at 15 Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam. He had a few people in hiding work for him. Genemans was arrested on 23 January 1945 while carrying out a KP job and was subsequently transferred to the prison on Weteringschans in Amsterdam. On 12 February 1945, he was executed along with seven others in Haarlem as reprisal for the shooting of a German non-commissioned officer and a soldier in Haarlem. They were buried in a makeshift mass grave in the dunes near Overveen on the orders of the occupying forces.

Buried in the dunes near Overveen (grave R). Reburied in the Bloemendaal War Cemetery, plot 35.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• Peter H. Heere en Arnold Th. Vernooij, De Eerebegraafplaats te Bloemendaal, SDU Uitgevers, Den Haag, 2005; Oorlogsgravenstichting; Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945; Stadsarchief Amsterdam (persoonskaarten).

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