Jews began to settle in Barcin in the 18th century. They started coming to Barcin around the 17th century. In 1772 they lived in five out of 62 existing houses. These were the families of Leiser, Jude, Hirsch Levin, Joachim Wolf, Schmil Hirsch, Samuel Joseph (blacksmith), Rumprecht (gravedigger), Hirsch (butcher), Schmil Moses (merchant), Leiser Littmann.

In 1793 they were a community of 56 people (12 men, 14 women, 16 boys, 14 girls). In 1860s and 1870s they already had a teacher in their community. Gradually, they started to create a communal infrastructure. The cemetery was founded around that period. It was located within some distance from a road leading to Knieja village. The oldest gravestone of 1786 belonged to a Gniezno-native Leser. In 1837 a brick synagogue was built. Eventually, Jewish community was founded on the 5th of September 1834.

Apart from Barcin, some families lived in surrounding villages. In 1903 50 people lived in Barcin and 17 lived in: Wojcin, Szczepanow and Wapienne. Demographical development of the local community stopped in 1850s and 1860s. Jewish people start moving toward urban areas of Germany and United States (to a lesser degree). As a result the community never had their own rabbi. In the beginning of the 20th Century the religious school was closed down.(Religienschule). The last 10 pupils were transfered to a Jewish school in Pakosc[1.1].

After the community became desolated in the 1920s, last community members decided to close down the synagogue in 1930. They also stopped using community's other infrastructure. The reason for that was given by a chairman of the community also in Szubin: " (...) members (...) would not pay their dues and would live secular lives, did not use the slaughter." [refr:|Bydgoszcz State Archive (APB), Pomorskie Voivodship Office in Torun (UWPT), ref. 4504. ]]. The members of the last community board of 1911 before World War I: Adolf Gerson, Abaham Lachmann, Markus Markus.

The community was not administered from 1917 until 1930 when the mayor of Barcin became the Jewish community chairman. Between 1919 and 1939 property of Jewish community included: synagogue with annex and courtyard, cemetery with morgue and agricultural area (3/4 morgen), a meadow (1/2 morgen). In 1929 the synagogue was to be sold and transformed into an orphanage, however it became complicated after it turned out that an old woman lived in the premises. The case was reopened in 1939.

After the World War II broke out the case was dropped. [1.2]. In 1931 five community members owned nine real estate properties in the town. [1.3]. In 1926 Stefan Giebocki (Gebotsschreiber) settled in Barcin. He was the author of 1938-published diaries in the "Polish Phisicians' Diaries" collection.[1.4]. He died during the war. The last Jews of Barcin probably left the town before September 1939.