Kežmarok (German: Kesmark or Käsmark; Hungarian: Késmárk, Rusyn: Кежмарок, Yiddish: קעזמאַרק, romanized: Kezmark, Polish: Kieżmark) is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia (population 16,000), on the Poprad River.

In the 13th century the region contained a community of Saxons, a Slovak fishing village, a Hungarian border post and a Carpathian German settlement.

[4] He died in exile in Turkey in 1705 but in the 20th century his body was returned to Kežmarok and he is buried in a noble mausoleum in the town's Lutheran church.

The evacuation was mostly the initiative of Adalbert Wanhoff and prepared[clarification needed] the diocese of the German Evangelical Church between mid-November 1944 and 21 January 1945.

During World War II, under the auspices of the First Slovak Republic, nearly 3,000 of the town's Jews were deported to German death camps.

The town contains many historic monuments, including the Basilica of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the Wooden articular church in Kežmarok.