Mother born in Russia, maybe - Not sure exactly where.  I know she emigrated from Riga, Latvia.  Once, a long time ago I actually found a village called Slutzk in Poland.  Suspect that's really where she was from.56

Sonja was her given name, but it was changed to Sara at Ellis Island when she was about 2.106

References to Slutzk using Google
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=701587
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/radoshkovichi/r_pages/rad_gb_archive.html
http://www.hebrewhistory.info/factpapers/fp033_bezborodko.htm
http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nl/content2.as...296323&ct=351025
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pages/mandel.html

Shtel seeker results
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetlexp5
Maps
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?&t=l&map=53....Y:53.0272:27.5619:13