Thats a pitty. (I think one of my first english words after, "Oh no Dave I have a puncture") Do you have a possibilty to contact them? We don´t need a new iron wall also when it feels like one.
Maybe my mother has contact data with the families. I think I'll ask her next time I talk to her. I agree on no one needing new iron courtains. But in the last years happened a lot that's hard to forget or even forgive. And lost trust is nothing rebuilt easily.