We must do everything we can not to forget to remember Auschwitz. It may sound like a play on words, but it is in fact precisely the meaning of the initiative launched on the occasion of the day of remembrance of the horrors of the Holocaust by the association Figli della Shoah and the Fondazione Cdec (Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea): to keep alive the experience of Nedo Fiano, one of the last surviving survivors of Auschwitz still living. A man who, after dedicating his life to remembering and recounting the Shoah, has himself begun to forget: his memory, aided by age, no longer works as it once did. And so, to his aid and to the aid of those who still want to learn something from Nedo, came the A5405 project.

The project is launched with the video Forgetting Auschwitz, remembering Auschwitz, set in a tattoo shop where a number of people were invited under the pretext of filming a documentary about the world of tattooing. Once inside, however, they found themselves confronted with something they had never imagined. The tattooist had drawn on their skin the outline of an unusual tattoo: the number A5405, the number assigned to Nedo as a prisoner at Auschwitz. Their reactions, reflections and emotion at Nedo's story are captured in the video, shared on the web, which closes with an invitation to keep his memory alive by personally taking on his testimony through a dedicated website.

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On the website there are videos of hundreds of people who interpret and read Nedo's memories in the first person, as though they had lived them on their own skin and as though they were their own memories: people who have made Nedo's memory their own. Among the "witnesses" are also a number of well-known figures, such as Gad Lerner, Moni Ovadia, Ludovico Einaudi, Elda Ferri and Roberto Faenza, who have chosen to join the project.