Barcin [ˈbart͡ɕin] is a town in central Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Żnin County.

In the following centuries, it was a private town, administratively located in the Kcynia County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.

[5] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded and then occupied by Germany.

Barcin was one of the sites of executions of Poles carried out by Germany in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.

[6] Three Poles who were either born or lived in Barcin were also murdered by the Russians in the large Katyn massacre in April–May 1940.