Some documentaries make for tough but necessary viewing. The stories told in the concluding part of My Family, the Holocaust and Me (BBC One) were harrowing. The descendants of Holocaust survivors traced the stories that shaped their families, many of them so traumatic that they had never been discussed. But as one of the contributors said: “We must tell the story so it...

Tom Palmer’s powerful and moving novel After The War is inspired by the true-life story of The Boys – 300 Jewish refugee orphans, who were brought over to Britain at the end of the Second World War to begin a new life in the Lake District.

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” argued German philosopher Theodor W Adorno. He may have thought the same of painting, yet that is the task Marie Paneth set a group of young holocaust survivors in her care.