Elie Wiesel and Oprah Winfrey

High school students who had read Night had the opportunity to enter Oprah Winfrey's National High School Essay Contest in the spring of 2006. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has archived important resources connected with this project that brought together Elie Wiesel and Oprah Winfrey along with an earlier conversation between the two recorded in 2000. You can also view background on genocide from the USHMM Committee on Conscience.