Julian Bell is the nephew of the writer Virginia Wolf and one of the combatants who, it is suspected, are buried in a grave that could be where the Madrid City Council plans a garbage canton. Bell traveled to Madrid in 2011 to retrace the last steps of his uncle who, in an act of rebellion, joined the ranks of the International Brigades that supported the Republican side during the Spanish civil war.
“There I paid my respects, before a mark on a wall. I knew nothing about the long history of the relocation of bodies,” Bell says.