"We've been left with nothing," added her 61-year-old son Thomas. "We have nowhere to go. I'll require welfare and my mother won't survive the move." "My grandfather who bought the house died that same year and I was three years old," Gabrielle added. "This matter was never discussed at home." Thomas, in a provocative statement, added, "I feel like we're losing the war for the third time -- once at the war's end, then with the fall of East Germany and now as we're losing our home. We're paying the price for two dictatorships."