When World War II broke out, Grouitch escaped Serbia while Belgrade was being bombed taking refugee children with her.
11 Facts About Mabel Grouitch
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Mabel Grouitch was decorated by Yugoslavia, England, France, Romania and more countries for her work.
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Mabel Grouitch's father was a prominent railroad man of the early days in Virginia and later in Chicago, Illinois.
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When she was still young, Mabel Grouitch became interested in the study of archaeology and ethnology, to which her father was greatly devoted.
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Mabel Grouitch devoted herself to the work of emancipating the women of Serbia.
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The wives of the representatives of the Serbian Government at the various courts of Europe helped Mabel Grouitch raise money for it.
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Mabel Grouitch was particularly interested in establishing an agricultural course for girls in connection with the University of Belgrade, because, according to Mabel Grouitch, a son cannot be spared to go and study agriculture since sons must enter the army, a daughter could be spared and then return home to share with her family what she had learned.
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Mabel Grouitch raised a large sum of money from her friends in the United States to assist with these endeavors.
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Mabel Grouitch raised money for the Serbian Red Cross during the Balkan Wars.
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Dr Louise Tayler Jones, of Washington, DC, on Mabel Grouitch's request, volunteered to proceed to Serbia as medical director and organize the hospital, and Dr Catherine Travis, of New Britain, Connecticut, was appointed assistant.
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Mabel Grouitch died on 13 August 1956 in a Georgetown hospital of leukemia in Washington, DC.