"Fred Zlotkin Reminisces: about growing up in the Slatkin household with parents Felix and Eleanor Slatkin and brother Leonard Slatkin". London: The Felix Slatkin Website. 2003-09-09. Retrieved 2008-01-05.[dead link] "The Zlotkin/Slatkin lineage is Russian Jewish. The first Zlotkin arrival to the US was Felix's father, grandpa Chaim Peretz Zlotkin, who came to settle with relatives in St. Louis in 1913; he (or the clerk at Ellis Island) changed the name. He probably came from the town of Mogilev [now Mohyliv-Podilskyi], from a shtetl (the Russians forced most Jews to live in villages outside of the major cities). He came to America and settled with relatives in St. Louis in 1913. In 1923, his father came over and lived in St. Louis."
