The paper is an attempt to present how the inhabitants of Muranów housing district in Warsaw, the world's only ghetto memorial estate, experience time and how do they perceive their own kariotic role within the borders of this specific architectural space. The South Muranow estate was ultimately built in the years 1948-1954 on the site of Warsaw ghetto, under the supervision of Bohdan Lachert, the champion of Polish pre-war avant-garde architecture. Thus, the unique character of the area lies in its triple nature: the former Jewish quartier and the site of its resident`s annihilation, the Jewish cemetery, and from the 1950 onwards the housing estate for between 40,000 and 50,000 people. The new buildings were constructed using prefabrication rubble and concrete, erected on hillocks made of rubble. The architect assumed that the estate would be a place of methamorphosis from death to life. Residents were a vital element of this concept - their daily existence in this area rendered the idea of „Phoenix rising from the ashes" real. Prof. Barbara Engelking, analyzing the experiences of the ghetto inhabitants, showed that time flowed differently for them than outside the walls; the ghetto was an island in time, suspended in the dense present, where the past was cut off and the future turned into eternity. Through an analysis of the interviews conducted with contemporary residents of South Muranów, the paper examines how they experience time in the same space, and whether they are aware of their kairotic moment in relations to their precedessors and the role assigned to them in this space by Lachert: by living there and now in the memorial estate, they also participate in its transformation.