Granada, Spain - This summer, Marina Roldan, a lawyer from Granada in southern Spain, finally got the phone call her family had waited decades for.

The body of Fermin Roldan Garcia, her grandfather, who was one of tens of thousands of people killed by General Francisco Franco’s death squads in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, had finally been located and identified.

His remains were found in a ravine in the village of Viznar, a few kilometres outside Granada.

“My brother Juan called me. He’d been the family contact with the archaeological team carrying out the excavation,” Roldan told Al Jazeera. "When Juan told me my grandfather had been found, my first thoughts were for my [late] father."

Her father, Jose Antonio Roldan Diaz, was just 10 months old when his father was killed at the

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