Introduction
The HerStories Teaching Compendium is a comprehensive educational resource designed to explore Jewish women’s experiences in 20th-century Europe, inspired by the seven biographies in the HerStories project. It is made by teachers, educators, and researchers who took part in the project with the aim to equip educators with a variety of tools to introduce women's stories into classrooms, fostering empathy, historical awareness, and thoughtful discussion around themes of gender, identity, religion, persecution and resilience. With lesson plans, oral history methodologies, and interdisciplinary activities, the compendium makes history more accessible, especially for students in today’s diverse classroom environments.