The Latvian-Polish Rapprochement Association was founded in Riga in 1928. In 1929 a book “Modern Poland” was published by the Association which had been written by the president of the Association Karl Bürger and Jānis Ošs. In 1933 the Association had 310 members 70 of which belonged to the academic section and 75 belonged to a section from Daugavpils which had been founded in 1929. The Association has made an important contribution to the contacts and an exchange of experiences between Polish and Latvian students until it was forcibly shut down by the Soviet Union which took power in Latvia in 1940 .