On January 27, filmmaker Steven Spielberg delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations General Assembly, which centered on the theme 'Journeys Through the Holocaust."The ceremony also featured a speech by Rena Finder, a Holocaust survivor who had been part of Schindler's list. Spielberg's address coincided with the 20th anniversary of the USC Shoah Foundation, which he founded in 1994.
Dorothy Height, an icon for civil rights as well as women's rights, was celebrated with a Google doodle on Monday on what would have been her 102nd birthday. She died in 2010.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak cited a new analysis of satellite data by a British satellite company and accident investigators that Flight 370 went down in the southern Indian Ocean.