The protagonists in Our Songbook are Polish Jews who emigrated to Israel during or after World War II. Artur Zmijewski went to a nursing home for the elderly in Tel Aviv and asked some women and men to sing songs from their childhood and youth in Polish: they sang popular songs, songs about love, patriotic songs, and the Polish national anthem. A man sings a patriotic song, falters, and can only keep bringing out the refrain. A woman starts to sing the Polish national anthem, then hums on because she can remember only the first verse. The body language – looking up or scratching the head – betrays their difficulties with remembering. It seems as if they are searching for words and melodies. The video work moves between the problems of an individual's ability to remember and of historical collective memory. The Polish language builds a bridge between personal memory and the lost history of Polish Jewry.