Funeral services were held Friday afternoon for Zvi Karp, 33, of Brooklyn, who died in Cumberland Hospital Thursday as the result of an accident early that morning when he was seriously injured when he fell from the platform of the B.M.T. subway station at Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, and was struck by a Manhattan-bound train. Karp was a vice-president of the Mizrachi organization in America.
Services were held at the Hirsch and Schwartz Funeral Chapel, 118 Prospect avenue, the Bronx. Rabbi Jacob Levinson, vice-president of the Mizrachi, officiated. Interment was in Riverside Cemetery.
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