Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1939, bayan mamaye Poland, sojojin Nazi na Jamus
rufe jami'ar. An buƙaci maza masu ƙoshin lafiya su yi aiki, don haka daga 1940 zuwa 1944 Wojtyła ya yi aiki daban-daban a matsayin mai aikawa ga gidan abinci, ma'aikacin hannu a cikin dutsen dutse da kuma masana'antar sinadarai ta Solvay, don kauce wa gudun hijira zuwa Jamus. A watan Fabrairun 1940, ya sadu da Jan Tyranowski wanda ya gabatar da shi ga ruhaniyar Carmelite da kungiyoyin matasa "Rosary Rayayye". A wannan shekarar ya sami manyan haɗari guda biyu, yana fama da karyewar kwanyar bayan da motar motar ta buge shi da kuma raunin da ya faru wanda ya bar shi da kafada daya sama da na biyu da kuma dindindin bayan da motar mota ta buge shi a cikin dutse. Mahaifinsa, tsohon jami'in soja na Austro-Hungarian kuma daga baya jami'in Sojan Poland, ya mutu sakamakon bugun zuciya a 1941, ya bar Wojtyła a matsayin dangin dangi na kusa. "Ban kasance a mutuwar mahaifiyata ba, ban kasance a mutuwar ɗan'uwana ba, ban kasance a mutuwar mahaifina ba", in ji shi, yana tunani game da waɗannan lokutan rayuwarsa, kusan shekaru arba'in daga baya, "A shekara ashirin, na riga na rasa duk mutanen da nake ƙauna".