• A stone monument is set up in memory of 22 soldiers that deceased in a mine accident the 1^st of May 1945. The monument stands next to the historic church yard (1807 – 1905) on the southern side of Karasjok centre. The soldiers served the II Field battalion, the III Artillery, the II troop and the First troop and were ordered to carry out mine cleaning.

• Another memorial site near the Historical church is a stone monument in memory of those that fell during World War II in Karasjok. The monument is set up by the St Maria Order in Germany as an act of forgiveness for the suffering and ravage that the Germans imposed on Karasjok and its people during the war.
• In Niitoguolba, near the Sami Upper Secondary High School, a memorial monument to Serbian War Prisoners from the Second World War is erected.
• In Valjok a memorial stone is erected by Porsanger and Karasjok municipalities to honour the mercy and help that the people of Valjok showed through autumn and winter 1944/45 and spring 1945.
• Next to the City Hall of Karasjok is the 'King-stone;' a memorial stone set up when King Harald and Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway visited Karasjok in 1992.

Written by Hilda Vuolab, 18.03.2005

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