Kammala wannan jumla: A watan Satumbar 1939, a lokacin da Jamus da Soviet suka mamaye Poland, wanda ya fara yakin duniya na biyu, Puławy ya kama shi da Wehrmacht, kuma daga bisani ya kasance
Jamus ta mamaye shi. Sansanin fursunoni uku na Jamus suna aiki a kusa da Puławy. A cikin 1940 Jamusawa sun gudanar da kame-kame da yawa na masu ilimin Poland na gida, wanda aka daure a Lublin, sannan sau da yawa aka tura su zuwa sansanonin taro ko aka kashe su a Rury, Lublin. A lokacin mamayewa, mawaƙin Poland Krystyna Krahelska ya zauna a cikin birni daga 1940 zuwa 1942 kuma ya kasance cikin ƙungiyar 'yan adawa ta ƙasar Poland. An fi saninta da marubucin waƙar da ta fi shahara a cikin motsi na juriya na Poland ("Hej chłopcy, bagnet na broń"), wanda ta fara a 1943 a Warsaw, inda aka kashe ta a cikin Warsaw Uprising a 1944. An tsare Yahudawa 3,600 na garin da farko a cikin ƙauye, sa'an nan aka kashe su a sansanin Sobibór. Yahudawa sun daina wanzuwa kuma ba a sake kafa su ba. Garin ya kasance a ƙarƙashin mamayar Jamus har zuwa 25 ga Yuli, 1944, lokacin da Sojojin Gida, da kuma Red Army suka 'yantar da shi.