Guwahati, Aug. 17 -- Jan Lanicek, UNSW Sydney

Everyone knows her photo. For some it shows the cheeky smile of a young girl, "Miss Quack Quack". For others, the image represents an enigmatic veil of mystery, similar to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

Millions have read her diary, watched various renditions in theatres and on the screen, or visited exhibitions devoted to her story. Thousands queue in front of the house in Amsterdam, where she spent 760 days in the secret annex, hiding from the Gestapo and their Dutch collaborators.

People quote the most famous sentence from her diary, immortalised in the Hollywood film, saying that "in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart".

The sentence was written in ...