Music to inspire hope – and to accompany atrocity

Among the inmates at concentration camps were some of Europe 's most talented musicians.

At Auschwitz , where more than one million Jews were murdered, 15 orchestras operated.

They were forced to play marches for an hour each morning and evening , as prisoners headed to and from work.

The Last Musician of Auschwitz will be broadcast on BBC Two on 27 January .

Gisèle Weber sent away her eldest son, Hanuš , to escape persecution in late-1930s Czechoslovakia .

He became one of 669 children saved by the Kindertransport .

In late 1944 the children at the Theresienstadt ghetto including Weber’s youngest son, Tommy were summoned to Auschwitz .

Weber refused to let them die alone so she chose to accompany them.