 Plaintiffs included all Holocaust victims, not just Jews.The WJC was able to marshal the unprecedented support of U.S. government officials including senator Alfonse D'Amato R-NY, who held hearings of the Senate Banking Committee in which he claimed to possess "recently declassified documents that shed new light" on the Swiss role in the war.He also claimed that "hundreds of millions of dollars" of war-era Jewish assets remained in Swiss banks.