Josephine de Gersdorff (1896-1975)

Chevaliere Josephine de Gersdorff was born in Manhattan, New York and died in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts. She was the wife of Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr and the mother of Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield de Bradlee, aka Benjamin C. Bradlee of the Washington Post.

Durring World War II she started an orphange that allowed parents in Naxi occupied Europe to send their children to Josephine for protection from the Nazi's. The French Government later awarded her the Legion d'honour and she becae a Chevaliere.