Pearl Zamorski

Pearl is one of the two twin narrators, she is the “Keeper of Time and Memory,” in charge of “the sad, the past, the good” in the twins' delegation of duties (193, 21). Pearl is a good dancer, and Stasha hopes that she will be in American movies one day. While in Auschwitz, Pearl is convinced that she is dying from the experiments Mengele is performing on her, and she tries to prepare Stasha for her death by giving her the piano key as a memento.

Peal is sentimental, but realistic. She kisses Peter Abraham and tells him that she loves him because she does not expect to live long enough to have any genuine romantic relationships. During the concert at Auschwitz, she is abducted and taken to a lab, where she is tortured and experimented on, and loses her memory. She is rescued by Russian soldiers when Auschwitz...