Date of birth:

November 23rd, 1921 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 8th, 1945 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 37. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Frans Beukman studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam. In April 1943 he refused to sign the declaration of loyalty that the occupying forces demanded of students if they wanted to be allowed to continue their studies.
On 6 May he responded to the call of the Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Rauter to report to the Polizeisicherungsbereich in Amsterdam. That same evening, he and approximately 3,200 other students were taken by extra train from the Dutch national railway company to the concentration camp in Ommen under the guard of the Ordnungspolizei and the Dutch police. In total, more than 40% of the male students were imprisoned.
Because he suffered a nervous breakdown shortly after his arrival in Ommen, he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Deventer. This spared him the fate of the vast majority of the imprisoned students, namely being sent to work in Germany. He later returned to Amsterdam, mentally weakened and ‘forgotten’ by the occupying forces.
In August 1944, Beukman became involved with the illegal magazine De Wegwijzer. In addition to editorial work, he was also involved in distributing the magazine. He was also a member of the Ordedienst (OD), a national illegal organisation that had partly originated in military circles. He was later also a member of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Internal Armed Forces) in Amsterdam.
On 19 December 1944, he was arrested at home by Dutch members of the Sicherheitspolizei. He was imprisoned in the Amsterdam detention centre and put on the Todeskandidaten list of people eligible for execution by firing squad in reprisal.
On 8 March, Beukman was executed by firing squad together with 52 other men on the Amsteldijk in reprisal for the - unintentional - attack on the Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer in Nederland Rauter. On the orders of the occupying forces, their bodies were temporarily buried in a mass grave in the dunes near Overveen.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• - Beukman, Franciscus | Monument Rozenoord
  - Franciscus Beukman
  - Franciscus Beukman | Oorlogsgravenstichting
  - Franciscus Beukman (Amsterdam (nh), 23 november 1921 - Amsterdam (nh)/Amsteldijk-Rozenoord, 8 maart 1945) - Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen
  - Amsterdam, 'Fusilladeplaats Rozenoord' - Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei : Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei
  - Franciscus Beukman | Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945
  

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