Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1939, pashure pokupinda muPoland, mauto okugarisa echiNazi eGermany
yunivhesiti yakavharwa. Varume vaiva nesimba vaifanira kushanda, saka kubva muna 1940 kusvika muna 1944 Wojtyła akashanda zvakasiyana-siyana semutumwa weresitorendi, mushandi wemumaoko mumugodhi wemarasha uye wefekitari yemakemikari yeSolvay, kuitira kuti arege kudzingwa kuGermany. Muna February 1940, akasangana naJan Tyranowski uyo akamuzivisa kumudzimu weCarmelite uye mapoka evechiduku e"Rosary Living". Mugore iroro akanga ane tsaona mbiri huru, achitambura nehana yakaputsika pashure pokurohwa netram uye kukuvadzwa kwakasimba kwakamusiya ane rimwe fudzi rakakwirira kupfuura rimwe uye akadonha zvachose pashure pokurohwa nerori mumugodhi. Baba vake, aimbova mukuru mukuru weAustria-Hungary uye gare gare mukuru mukuru muuto rePoland, akafa nekurwara nemwoyo muna 1941, achisiya Wojtyła semhuri yepedyo chete akapona. "Ndakanga ndisiri parufu rwaamai vangu, ndakanga ndisiri parufu rwomunun'una wangu, ndakanga ndisiri parufu rwababa vangu", akadaro, achifunga nezvenguva idzodzo dzoupenyu hwake, makore anoda kusvika makumi mana gare gare, "Pamakore makumi maviri, ndakanga ndatorasikirwa navanhu vose vandaida".